Hard to find alternate source of checksums

Jeff Martin jmtechwork at gmail.com
Sat Jun 9 19:08:16 CEST 2018


For a fresh install of GnuPG, I was following the integrity check
directions. I have no prior version for GnuPG.

https://gnupg.org/download/integrity_check.html

They read "...find the announcement on several other websites and make
sure the checksum is consistent." This task is difficult to accomplish
using search engines such a DuckDuckGo or Google. The search terms
that yielded the best results were merely the full file name enclosed
in double quotes.

I eventually found an alternate source of the checksums solely from
search results for all files except "ntbtls-0.1.2.tar.bz2", oddly. I'm
not sure what makes that one special. Also, I felt I was relying too
much on www.linuxfromscratch.org as my alternate source.

Do you have any specific tips for how to find alternate checksum sources?

Thanks.



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Jeff Martin



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