Which program do I use to check the md5 hash of a file?
On 2014-01-29 01:26, aqualion wrote:
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> Which program do I use to check the md5 hash of a file?
md5sum?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
Where do I find it?
Help please. What program do I use to find the md5 hash of a file and where is it located.
On 2014-01-29 02:06, aqualion wrote:
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> Where do I find it?
Huh? In the same place as all the programs in openSUSE. You start YaST
package manager, and seek for it there.
But it should already be installed. Did you try? It is a command line
program, off course.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
I found YaST but there is no program in there for calculating a file’s hash. I’m not familiar with the command line.
May I please ask for a program (graphical user interface) that will calculate and display the hash of a file? Please offer a simple solution as I’m not familiar with Linux or command lines. Thank you.
On 2014-01-29 03:16, aqualion wrote:
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> Help please. What program do I use to find the md5 hash of a file and
> where is it located.
I told you.
> cer@AmonLanc:~/Downloads2/isos> md5sum openSUSE-13.1-Rescue-CD-x86_64.iso
> a0f1bd775ffdbf31f6c36b44a677f8fe openSUSE-13.1-Rescue-CD-x86_64.iso
> cer@AmonLanc:~/Downloads2/isos>
It is a CLI, so forget the menus and the mouse. This is Linux.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
On 2014-01-29 03:26, aqualion wrote:
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> I found YaST but there is no program in there for calculating a file’s
> hash. I’m not familiar with the command line.
> May I please ask for a program (graphical user interface) that will
> calculate and display the hash of a file?
I don’t know of any.
> Please offer a simple
> solution as I’m not familiar with Linux or command lines. Thank you.
Well, I’m sorry, but this is Linux, so you’d better get familiarized
with the command line.
If you do a search for “md5” on the search page, you will not find GUIs.
> http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=md5&baseproject=openSUSE%3A13.1&search_devel=false&search_unsupported=false
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
On 01/28/2014 09:33 PM, Carlos E. R. pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> On 2014-01-29 03:16, aqualion wrote:
>> Help please. What program do I use to find the md5 hash of a file and
>> where is it located.
> I told you.
>
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>> cer@AmonLanc:~/Downloads2/isos> md5sum openSUSE-13.1-Rescue-CD-x86_64.iso
>> a0f1bd775ffdbf31f6c36b44a677f8fe openSUSE-13.1-Rescue-CD-x86_64.iso
>> cer@AmonLanc:~/Downloads2/isos>
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> It is a CLI, so forget the menus and the mouse. This is Linux.
>
Please Carlos, easy on the new people.
Click on the gecko on the lower left and find the program konsole. Once
it starts you will be the the CLI. From there you can run the command to
check the md5sum (hash) of what ever file you have access to.
As Carlos pointed out learn how to use the CLI to do things as it is
your best friend in any OS.
Ken
aqualion wrote:
> I found YaST but there is no program in there for calculating a file’s
> hash. I’m not familiar with the command line.
> May I please ask for a program (graphical user interface) that will
> calculate and display the hash of a file? Please offer a simple
> solution as I’m not familiar with Linux or command lines. Thank you.
You need to start learning then …
aqualion, do not be afraid of command line tools, they are not hard and get the job done, often more quickly and easily than GUI.
To help you, tell us which desktop you are using…
If KDE, one quick way of doing this, even without any experience:
Press ALT + F2
A small window will open. Enter in there “konsole”
it will offer to open the application called konsole, which is a terminal emulator, which you can use for command lines.
Open it, and write in “md5s” and press the tab key… it will auto-fill in “md5sum”.
Then fill in the location of the file you need to check for example /home/aqualion/documents/myfile.
So you have a line looking like this:
md5sum /home/aqualion/documents/myfile
Just press enter, and depending on how big your file is, a few seconds later it will give the answer.
If you really really must use a GUI tool, here is how. (For KDE)
Open Dolphin (file manager)
Go to settings on the top menu bar
select ‘configure dolphin’
In the window which opens, select ‘services’
In the next window, select ‘download new services’
In the next window, find ‘md5 verify’
select ‘install’
Then when you want the md5 hash for a file, find it in dolphin, and right-click it.
HTH, but really, please learn a bit about using the CLI.