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How do I check the md5 checksum of a Linux application?
« on: January 08, 2006, 06:59:23 PM »
How do i check the md5 checksum of an application ?

I need to install net-snmp-5.3.tar.gz but have had some strange results downloading it and need to verify .


Thanks in advance,
Tom

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How do I check the md5 checksum of a Linux application?
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2006, 07:07:10 PM »
I found the answer  md5sum .

thank you,
Tom

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How do I check the md5 checksum of a Linux application?
« Reply #2 on: January 08, 2006, 07:10:44 PM »
If the .md5 file was included in your download, try this:

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# md5sum -c filename.ext.md5
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