> ... beat me to it. For debian testing, ... > # ls -l `which md5sum` > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22116 2006-08-31 23:57 /usr/bin/md5sum > > # md5sum --version > md5sum (GNU coreutils) 5.97
That's the GNU one. What does dpkg -S /usr/bin/md5sum say on your system please? I would like to know the simplest and official way to get that version. > If you're using debian stable, then you get an extremely old version > anyway. But when they say stable, they mean it. 3.1 is about 1.5 years old. A stable GNU md5sum with the features I described has been available for at leat 6 years. > If you're using testing, then try the following two commands... I won't ever consider running testing of any distro outside a sandbox. I had to fix someone else's server with Debian testing once, that was enough of a nightmare, thanks. But I wasn't interested in starting a distro argument. > apt-get update > apt-get upgrade My apt cache is uptodate. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
