On vie, 2005-09-23 at 08:49 -0700, Christian Seberino wrote: > After a beginner has managed to get a bunch of > Debian packages on his system how does he > verify he didn't mess any of the up? ... or that > no dependencies are missing? > If the packages were installed using aptitude or apt-get, dependences should be resolved and everything fine. Unless he has forced the installation, of course
> Is there some command to check integrity (hashes, checksums, etc.) > of files installed? > I think .deb packaging uses md5 to check the integrity, but I'm not sure -- Juan M. Duran Center for Molecular Genetics, Room 305 University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093-0634 Phone #: 1-858-534-3752 Fax #: 1-858-534-7073 -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
