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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