Comments on: How to Check MD5 Sums of Installed Packages in Debian/Ubuntu Linux

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 07:12:42 +0000

In reply to bushpilot.

Try to run the command below and show us the output:

sudo systemctl status -l “run-vmblock\x2dfuse.mount”

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 07:10:33 +0000

In reply to bushpilot.

@bushpilot

This could be caused by a possible mount problem under systemd perhaps a bug. Try to find out more from here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1448134

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 06:42:13 +0000

In reply to Christopher Lee.

@christopher

Yes, it is possible, this method only works as an extra-verification measure after packages are already installed on your system.

For example apt/apt-get does that as explained here: http://superuser.com/questions/990143/how-does-apt-get-checks-for-the-integrity-of-the-files-downloaded

By: Christopher Lee

Christopher Lee — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 21:32:30 +0000

An ignorant question, perhaps: could Linux software installation systems be designed to verify checksums automatically, as part of the service?

By: bushpilot

bushpilot — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 19:49:34 +0000

bill@jessie:~$ sudo debsums –changed
debsums: invalid line (1) in md5sums for open-vm-tools-desktop: \dde14951417e0e9f73b80f871e6540d1 lib/systemd/system/run-vmblock\\x2dfuse.mount

How do I fix this?