Thanks John, I knew they were there. I only pointed her to SourceForge because she’d been there already.
I should have also pointed out the announcement thread and/or the posting of the announcement directly on the GnuCash site. There’s always more than one way to tackle something. Since you brought it up, I know you’re really good about syncing info, but is there a ‘best place’ to pull the hashes from, just in case one source might be errant? And, not that you need to, but I know some publishers (Canonical comes to mind) also publish a hash file with a gpg signature. If you do that somewhere, certainly, that would be the first stop for users to make. --------- I see also on SourceForge that the ‘i’ button-link on the right of that screen (if you have JavaScript active) shows the sha1 and md5 hashes for each file which is also an option for anyone interested. As well, there are more methods than the one I listed in my reply on how to verify. (with MacOs in particular there is also the ‘shasum’ command.) Personally, I use a download plugin for Firefox (Downthemall) that offers the option to input the hash, specify the algorithm, and it verifies when the download is done. If you’re downloading via torrent, the Transmission client (as I’m sure others) also offers a verification option, though I’ve yet to figure out how it does it since I don’t specify the hash file or sequence. (perhaps the hash is referenced by the torrent file itself?) Regards, Adrien > On May 8, 2018, at 10:24 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > >> On May 8, 2018, at 6:20 PM, Adrien Monteleone >> <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: >> >> First, now that you’ve verified you want to open the app, try opening it >> with a left-click from LaunchPad or left double-click from the Applications >> folder. Be sure not to try launching the app from within bundle. Only launch >> from LaunchPad, the Applications Folder, or your Dock if you’ve placed it >> there. If that still doesn’t work, read on... >> >> ---------- >> >> Since that didn’t work, let’s make sure the download is proper. >> >> This might seem complicated at first, but it is in fact very easy with very >> little typing. (the worst parts you get to drag and drop) >> >> Open Finder to your Downloads folder (or wherever you downloaded the .dmg >> to) and move it to one side. >> >> Open your web browser and move it aside. >> >> Open a Terminal.app window and position it so you can see it with the other >> two windows on the screen. You can find it in Launchpad > Utilities, or use >> Spotlight [CMD-Space] and search for terminal.app and launch it. (It’s also >> in Applications > Utilities from Finder) >> >> At the command prompt (which ends in a ‘$’ sign) type: >> >> openssl sha256 >> >> followed by a space, then click and drag the .dmg file from your Downloads >> folder and drop it after that space. (this will copy the full path to where >> that dmg is stored on your machine at the end of the command) >> >> Then type another space and then a “pipe” character (looks like this-> | and >> is located above the enter key, you’ll have to use SHIFT to get it) followed >> by another space, then the word grep followed by another space. >> >> Then in your browser, go to the main project page on SourceForge for >> GnuCash: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/ >> <https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/> >> >> Click the Files tab. >> >> Click ‘gnucash (stable)' folder. >> >> Click the folder for the version you downloaded, in this case, probably the >> ’3.1’ folder. >> >> After the file listing, you’ll see a listing of ‘hashes’ which are long >> strings of letters and numbers with the corresponding file name next to >> them. Find the one for the .dmg you downloaded. >> >> Double-click the hash to select it. >> >> Now, carefully click and drag it onto the terminal.app window. (you can >> alternatively use the right-click menu on the hash to copy, and then again >> to paste at the end of the terminal command) >> >> The final command you’ve created should look like something like this: >> >> openssl sha256 /Users/yourname-here/Downloads/Gnucash-Intel-3.1-2.dmg | grep >> 71d06ea408302defacf08dcc8343ade86eeb2298b8b33e75a6e240754c2faf7f >> >> (that’s really one line, it may or may not wrap depending on how wide your >> terminal.app window is) ‘yourname-here’ would be replaced by the name of the >> logged in user on your Mac. (probably ‘julie’) >> >> Hit ENTER. >> >> After a few seconds or so, you should get a response like this: >> >> SHA256(/Users/yourname-here/Downloads/Gnucash-Intel-3.1-2.dmg)= >> 71d06ea408302defacf08dcc8343ade86eeb2298b8b33e75a6e240754c2faf71 >> >> followed by the command prompt. >> >> If all you get is your command prompt back instead, then the hashes don’t >> match. (be sure you copied the right one) You’ll need to try the download >> again and re-verify till they do. You can just hit the up-arrow key in the >> terminal to repeat the last command after the new download, but be sure to >> delete the bad download first or sometimes the file gets renamed with a ‘-1’ >> or something similar after it and the command will give you a “no such file >> or directory” error. >> >> ---------- >> >> Okay, that looked really technical, but wasn’t too hard to pull off. What >> you did was run a command to calculate the hash of the already downloaded >> file and then compare it to the one it was supposed to calculate. If they >> matched, it spat the hash back at you. If they didn’t, it does nothing. A >> matching hash means your download was complete and uncorrupted. (there >> really should be a simpler way to do this, I admit) >> >> If the hashes matched and you still can’t get it to open after dropping the >> GnuCash.app in the Applications folder and right-clicking to open and >> confirm followed by a left-click to launch normally, then I’m stumped. > > Adrien, > > In addition to the README.txt file on Sourceforge the sha256 hashes are also > in the release announcements at https://www.gnucash.org/news.phtml and > https://github.com/gnucash/gnucash/releases. > > Regards, > John Ralls > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
