[Slackbuilds-users] LibreOffice MD5SUM error

Christoph Willing chris.willing at linux.com
Tue Nov 13 05:08:36 UTC 2018


On 13/11/18 12:43 pm, listmaster at beauxbead.com wrote:
> On 2018-11-12 11:06, orbea at fredslev.dk wrote:
>> The download link for sourceforge listed on the SBo page works for me.
> 
> Yep, works for me too.  However, SourceForge does not provide any
> MD5sums that I can see.  Downloading is not my issue.
> 
> Maybe I'm just being a stickler here, but what is the purpose of
> providing MD5sums if they are incorrect?  How am I supposed to verify
> that my download wasn't corrupted?  I'm not being paranoid here,
> sometimes my connection is spotty enough to wind up with a bad download,
> and I'm just in the habit of verifying checksums whenever they are
> provided.
> 
> Sure, I can download and build.  I was just pointing out a tiny error
> that maybe someone could fix and address.  I HOPE I'm not the only one
> that verifies the checksums, but maybe I am?
> 

I apologise for the incorrect MD5SUM entry which I failed to update for
the latest version. The correct MD5SUM for that particular file is
6c4eb80dfef22ba0b6f3c1c9cdc6dd8e which will be fixed in the next round
of updates.

chris


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