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OpenMandriva / checksum

I just saw Distribution Release: OpenMandriva 23.08 "ROME" on DistroWatch.
As I wanted to give it a try I noticed it is impossible to find the checksum to verify that the download is OK. Why isn't it provided as usual by a simple click?

I looked on https://sourceforge.net/projects/ope...e/ROME/23.08/; but did not see anything.

Does anyone knows where to find it?

Hi, I saw an answer to a similar question, (https://forum.openmandriva.org/t/che...fication/627/6)

but I couldn't see the i (in a circle) information icon untill

I relaxed the java script blockers on my browser (firefox).

A dropdown box appears when selecting the i in a circle at the right side of the iso name...

the checksums are there.

Code:

openmandriva.rome-23.08-plasma.znver1.iso        2023-08-23        2.9 GB        

69

SHA1:



9f7d7787b8698f1fd3b625e29820a6bcdf836f2d



MD5:



333f548772a0461593da1efd6cfd8b0d

I used Mandriva, I liked it.

For the current version of OMLx recommended for regular user, ROME, you can go to this link:

https://forum.openmandriva.org/t/mos...ng-iso/4640/22

There in first post click on one of the "latest images" and that will take you to that .iso file with clearly marked files containing the md5sum and sha256sum. If interested there is a build log which will show all the packages on the .iso which will also be the packages on a fresh install.

There are Cooker (development) and Rock (business, server, and folks that do not like much change) versions. I can provide links to those if anyone is interested.

I download any new .iso to a new folder for that .iso. Then download the .iso, .md5sum, and ,sha256sum to that folder. Then after all 3 downloads are complete to check the checksums:

Code:

$ md5sum -c *md5sum



$ sha256sum -c *sha256sum

Works for me.

Edit: This is actually something I learned way back in Mandriva 2008-2009 days from Mandriva people. Have used it since. I do not like how SourceForge posts the checksums but ofc that method does work as well. To me the way they do it makes them harder to find and slower to use.

Did a little more research on this. It looks like that on SourceForge you need to login so you can go to OpenMandriva Lx and select files>release then select the particular release you are interested in to get to the checksums. They are in the file at the circle with the letter i in it.

Typically users click on the Green Download icon which only downloads the .iso and provides no access to the checksums. I will keep my opinion about that to myself.

Right now there is a more up to date version of ROME at the link in my post above. (The OpenMandriva forum link.)