Sapa Holliday wrote:
Hi I'm sorry to bother you. I have been using other Linux versions for a couple of years, I have recently upgraded my elementary os from Luna to Freya which is just no good for me. So I have searched and evaluated and decided I want Debian gnome flavour. I have used BitTorrent to download debian-live-8.2.0-amd64-gnome-desktop.iso and I used the md5sum to get a checksum of 0f3ec5bde4d3bb67ee44ecf862bce071 which doesn't seem to be on any of the lists I've found so far by searching which isn't good, I want an authentic distro I can't find anywhere to verify this checksum or any place to direct my (elementary) terminal to look to verify it. I'd be less concerned if it hadn't been a torrent download. When I've downloaded other iso's in the past I downloaded a checksum file, or a link to one, to use in terminal to verify. Is there somewhere to do this for this distro? Yours hopefully Sapa
Short answer: it checks ;) Longer answers: How can you check?Start at http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/ having 2 relevant links 8.2.0-live/ [http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.2.0-live/] current-live/ [http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/]
[I point this out in case you are not familiar with Debian's pattern of referencing releases. You could refer to "Current" or "Jessie" or "8.0.2", the later being the least ambiguous.]
Following the 1st link
iso-hybrid/
[http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.2.0-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/]
tells all.
How did I get there?
I couldn't remember the link but I did recall how things
were laid out.
My Google search term (with the quotation marks was:
"debian-live-8.2.0-amd64-gnome-desktop" site:debian.org
As the first hit had "current" URL, I followed its
directory tree back to an absolute rather than relative
reference. For future reference I suggest bookmarking the to of
the tree -- http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/ .