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Note How to check checksum & signature on linux.palemoon.org please.

Posted: 2016-01-19, 09:54
by bs27975
It's very nice that http://linux.palemoon.org/download/installer/ shows the SHA-1 checksum and PGP signature on the page.

However, I do/check such so seldom that I never remember how to do so.

Could a corresponding link to how to do so, perhaps to somewhere within the FAQ, be added please?

I know it's simple (want to say 'mk5sum file checksum' and 'gpg -check somethingorother'), but I know that's wrong and the specifics completely escape me at the moment.

So a link, or even 2 or 3 lines of 'Check By:' on the page itself, would be very useful.

Thanks for listening.

Re: Note How to check checksum & signature on linux.palemoon.org please.

Posted: 2016-01-19, 10:28
by bs27975
Also ...

Adding 'try apt-get install libgtk2.0-0' to the yad error line would be useful.

Re: Note How to check checksum & signature on linux.palemoon.org please.

Posted: 2016-01-19, 11:18
by Terryphi
If your distro has GtkHash available in the repository give it a try. I find it very quick and useful for checking a downloaded file.
Alternatively, you can use the command md5sum /pathtofile at the terminal to check just the md5 hash.

Re: Note How to check checksum & signature on linux.palemoon.org please.

Posted: 2016-01-19, 14:09
by bs27975
My point was ... put it on the page (please).

(As one is inherently on the command line, usually, if they're reading that bit, the non-gui version would be most immediately useful. To facilitate cut/paste, yup all is well ... proceed. Not to say the gui isn't useful, just not directly so, as a new thing, right then. Especially when one is in the middle of just trying to get a browser going. That's what they're focused on at that moment - anything else is a distraction that probably won't be paid attention to.)

Bumping around got me to https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Verify_the_ ... mmand_line. Didn't figure it out - knew I needed a key, etc., and ... well, see 'distraction' above.

In that bumping around, did find that 'shasum <filename>' did the trick. (Thanks for the md5summ - KNEW I should have been able to remember that. D'OH!)

No doubt there's a command line that will let shasum just say OK (or not), but didn't get that far. Focus just being getting a ^%*&%*&% browser going! :-)