On 06/19/2008 11:16 AM, Chris Lale wrote:
[...] I've checked the exact size of the deb with "ls -l" (4070872 Byte), which is the value given on the Debian website [1]. However, I cannot check the MD5 checksum (bca5e59168c73a3c8661069df80f368a) using # md5sum --check xserver-xorg-core_1.4.1~git20080517-1_i386.deb md5sum: xserver-xorg-core_1.4.1~git20080517-1_i386.deb: no properly formatted MD5 checksum lines found In fact, I get the same error for any .deb file, so I'm missing something here. [...]
"md5sum --check" wants to see a file listing the MD5 hashes for files in the current directory:
md5sum --check MD5SUMS.txt If you don't have such a file, just view the hash yourself: md5sum xserver-xorg-core_1.4.1~git20080517-1_i386.deb