Red Hat and checksums

David Talbot wrote on Aug 26, 1998

Hi
When I tried to put everything together from the lots of distributed
files things go horribly wrong, so I assume one of my downloaded files
is bad. However when I look at the checksums (using the version in
RH5.1) although they are similar to each other they don't bear any
resemblance to the published ones (either version). Are all my
downloaded files wrong or am I just using the wrong version of checksum?

Thanks
David

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Aug 26, 1998

	Checksums are pretty straightforward things to calculate and you
should have gotten matches on either the BSD or SYSV values in the dist-
ribution.  Since things won't unpack and none of the checksums match, I'd
say all of the files are corrupted and you should try downloading them
again.  Be sure to set binary mode for the transfer, you may prefer to use
the IRAF mirror site in the UK at

	ftp://star.rl.ac.uk/pub/iraf

Hope this helps.

-Mike

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David Talbot wrote on Aug 27, 1998

Hi Mike

Thanks for that, thats what I thought :-(. I do use the UK mirror, its a great
service you give. One request, how about putting a single file version of each
of the sets of files on there to make things a little easier for those of use
with a good conection.

Thanks
David

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