No packages

I downloaded Suse yesterday and when loading it said
‘YaST2 Package amaruk brokem, integrity failed’
‘Package yast 2-trans-enGB is broken, integrity failed’
I have therefore noticed no packages in the system. How can I resolve this please

Tony

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Did you verify the md5sum of your download as well as your burned CD/DVD
(if you used one) before trying to install?

Good luck.

Tony photoplus wrote:
> I downloaded Suse yesterday and when loading it said
> ‘YaST2 Package amaruk brokem, integrity failed’
> ‘Package yast 2-trans-enGB is broken, integrity failed’
> I have therefore noticed no packages in the system. How can I resolve
> this please
>
> Tony
>
>
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Ah MD what is that? Means nothing to me. I thought I was downloading 400 odd mgb’s but it took 4.7gb’s Wife ain’t pleased at the moment as I have a restriction on bandwidth its costing over £10 just to download it. Any way besides the point. I just burnt a copy of the iso and did a test before burning and thats it. So how do I verify MD5sum? I have an AthlonXP and went to the right download. Other than that no idea.

Is there anyway to resolve it? Or do I have to reload everything?

Thanks

Tony

I looked at this md5 and I can’t understand any of it!! I tried to look at it on Win XP but frankly it just goes over my head. Just to full of jargon. Is there a simple explanation on how to get this to verify my iso on XP?

Tony

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Download md5sum.exe (if you’re stuck in windows where you download the
ISO) and verify it matches the md5sum hash provided on the download
site. You should always check the md5sum of all your downloads unless
another hash is provided (sha1sum is popular too). *nix has ‘md5sum’
and ‘sha1sum’ provided by default so just use it against the file:

md5sum /path/to/your/file.iso

Good luck.

Tony photoplus wrote:
> Ah MD what is that? Means nothing to me. I thought I was downloading
> 400 odd mgb’s but it took 4.7gb’s Wife ain’t pleased at the moment as I
> have a restriction on bandwidth its costing over £10 just to download
> it. Any way besides the point. I just burnt a copy of the iso and did
> a test before burning and thats it. So how do I verify MD5sum? I have
> an AthlonXP and went to the right download. Other than that no idea.
>
> Is there anyway to resolve it? Or do I have to reload everything?
>
> Thanks
>
> Tony
>
>
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if your going to check the md5 sum,
here is a free app. to check it.
when you downloaded suse 11, that page
gave you a long set of numbers which
should match the image of suse 11,
you downloaded.
hope this helps;)

forgot the link:
FileCheckMD5 - Free MD5 file check utility for Windows.

Thanks for all your help I decided to check the ISO with K3b and it has an MD5 checker and this is the sum it came up with. I opened up the Suse I have at the moment which is badly loaded. How do I know if this sum is ok?
ed6a5b3feb668866df812b1c2aed9d7f

Tony

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Without knowing the exact source of your ISO that’s really hard.
Thankfully Google found it as a valid md5sum for
openSUSE-11.0-DVD-i386.iso so if that is what you are checking the
md5sum of then yes, you have a good download. The next check is to make
sure that your burn worked properly. k3b, when burning, has an option
to ‘Verify Written Data’ which basically does an md5sum against the DVD
once burned to be sure it was burned properly. There is also, I
believe, an installation medium check you can do when booting from the
DVD that should be better than nothing if you cannot verify your DVD any
other way.

Good luck.

Tony photoplus wrote:
> Thanks for all your help I decided to check the ISO with K3b and it has
> an MD5 checker and this is the sum it came up with. I opened up the
> Suse I have at the moment which is badly loaded. How do I know if this
> sum is ok?
> ed6a5b3feb668866df812b1c2aed9d7f
>
> Tony
>
>
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Maybe it would help to explain a little more about md5sum. Basically
md5 is a hash function/algorithm (see Wikipedia for lots of details)
that lets you quickly calculate a fairly-unique value for a given set of
data. These are used sometimes for passwords (so the password is never
sent across a wire in a form that can be reversed) but are also used to
calculate a checksum for some other given set of data. Without a hash
the only way to ensure a download worked properly is to download it,
download it again, and compare the two and then hope you didn’t download
it the same wrong way twice. A hash lets you get a unique signature of
sorts from the people who created the valid data which is able to be
quickly checked against your own checksum of what you downloaded. If
your checksum matches theirs (this little string of gobble-de-gook being
the checksum) then you can be relatively sure the download was valid.
There is a lot of math behind all of this that is in Wikipedia and other
places, but just take my word for it that it works. When you download
from opensuse.org there is a checksum on the webpage with this
hash/checksum. when you finish downloading you can either use md5sum to
check it explicitly or you can use k3b to do the same during the burn
and optional (but encouraged) verification process.

Getting off the md5sum topic you may want to try burning at a lower
speed… some optical (CD/DVD) drives do not like media burned at high
speeds.

Good luck.

ab@novell.com wrote:
> Without knowing the exact source of your ISO that’s really hard.
> Thankfully Google found it as a valid md5sum for
> openSUSE-11.0-DVD-i386.iso so if that is what you are checking the
> md5sum of then yes, you have a good download. The next check is to make
> sure that your burn worked properly. k3b, when burning, has an option
> to ‘Verify Written Data’ which basically does an md5sum against the DVD
> once burned to be sure it was burned properly. There is also, I
> believe, an installation medium check you can do when booting from the
> DVD that should be better than nothing if you cannot verify your DVD any
> other way.
>
> Good luck.
>
>
>
>
>
> Tony photoplus wrote:
>> Thanks for all your help I decided to check the ISO with K3b and it has
>> an MD5 checker and this is the sum it came up with. I opened up the
>> Suse I have at the moment which is badly loaded. How do I know if this
>> sum is ok?
>> ed6a5b3feb668866df812b1c2aed9d7f
>
>> Tony
>
>
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