Lance Simmons wrote: > The Debian website lists MD5sums for each package. Is there any way to > automate the checking of a package's MD5sum after you download it, or > does it have to be done by hand? > > Debsums is useful for checking the MD5sums of the _files_ of a package, > but how do I check the MD5sum of the package itself (short of running > md5sum by hand and comparing it to the MD5sum posted on the Debian > website)? > > Or is this already done somehow?
Apt automatically checks the ms5sums of each package it downloads. -- see shy jo
