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Re: [LUG] edubuntu and MD5SUM

 

Benjamin A'Lee wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 03:13:59PM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote:
>   
>> I have downloaded edubuntu server and server addon cdroms,  and ran 
>> md5sum on each,  doing cat MD5SUMS, I get a list of files and associated 
>> checksums however there seems to be differences.
>>
>> as in
>> psutton@duron1600:~/linuxiso$ cat MD5SUMS
>>
>> 2ff9924f75366a75e370ea5c4c9ce2e5 *edubuntu-7.04-desktop-amd64.iso
>> 1dacaf1f8cf9ddb8a3fecaa0b0910d99 *edubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso
>> 804202ebd5e2f59a1f2059dd8d3f0688 *edubuntu-7.04-server-amd64.iso
>> c9105528c35f282e173cfac6c4b8d563 *edubuntu-7.04-server-i386.iso
>> 60f086d583902939e4b881696221aa68 *edubuntu-7.04-serveraddon-amd64.iso
>> ddc62e32e6047984fffad2e86dfcec38 *edubuntu-7.04-serveraddon-i386.iso
>>
>>
>> psutton@duron1600:~/linuxiso$ md5sum edubuntu-7.10-serveraddon-i386.iso
>> 7ea5785a4f0ea80d1dc1b1a262b77968  edubuntu-7.10-serveraddon-i386.iso
>>
>> psutton@duron1600:~/linuxiso$ md5sum edubuntu-7.10-server-i386.iso
>> bd78453e7057d130f46e233c24c02707  edubuntu-7.10-server-i386.iso
>>
>> have i done anything wrong, here,
>>     
>
> Yes. Look at the filenames in the MD5SUMS file, and look at the
> filenames you've tested. Now try and guess why the checksums don't
> match. ;)
>  
>   
>> I am in the process of downloading edubuntu-desktop,  and hope that this 
>> one works better,  what do other people get from running md5sum on the   
>> iso files. ?
>>     
>
> If you do `md5sum -c MD5SUMS`, it'll check all the files listed in
> MD5SUMS and see if the listed result matches the actual result.
>
>   
Thanks, I see where I went wrong and How I ended up downloading the 
wrong md5sum list

Paul

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