On Thursday 09 December 2010 05:53:00 PeterS wrote: > > i don't know why you are getting the checksums from chip.eu... > > > > on the other side, it seams that the scribus team stopped to > > produce checksums for their downloads, or sourceforge stopped > > providing them, or one of borh is hiding them very well... > > > > ciao > > a.l.e > > Hi a.l.e., > > thank you very much for trying to help me. > I am not getting my checksums from chip.eu, I am just saying that I > couldn't find the checksum for scribus-1.3.9-win32-install.exe - > neither on the scribus site, nor on the sourceforge site > (as I said, only for the scribus *source*). > > So I ran a Google search and found that chip.eu gives the same > ckecksum for *both* 1.3.8 and 1.3.9, which, as you also pointed > out, doesn't make any sense. > > That's why I am asking on this list, hoping that somebody from the > Scribus team can tell me the checksum for > scribus-1.3.9-win32-install.exe or, maybe, tell me that there > doesn't exist a checksum for scribus-1.3.9-win32-install.exe. > > I wrote: > >> before installing Scribus 1.3.9 I'd like to do a checksum > >> verification for scribus-1.3.9-win32-install.exe downloaded from > >> sourceforge.net > >> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus-devel/1.3 > >>.9/) > >> > >> http://www.scribus.net/node/233 only mentions the *source* > >> verification checksums. > >> > >> chip.eu (don't know if they are trustworthy, the entries seem to > >> be provided by the users rather than being an editorial choice) > >> have the checksum "631EFECF7BE8C93B5CBE47F9D8B54071" for *both* > >> 1.3.8 and 1.3.9. > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus
I never use checksums. If the program or source download doesn't work right then I download it again. That rarely happens, may be once every two years or so. My advice: just download the .exe file and execute it. -- John Culleton, typesetting and indexing http://wexfordpress.com book sales http://wexfordpress.net Free barcode: http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland/
