A GUI Tool to Verify Downloads in Linux

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Today I will look at a simple little flatpak tool to verify downloads in Linux easily using a GUI interface. The tool is Collision and the code is on github. See their website:

#Collision #Verify #Linux

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I don't know why we would need a GUI-tool for this but it is cool that sombody made it.

peterjansen
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Now all developers must provide the proper checksum for literally everything and guide users to this app. Linux distribution should ship this tool by default, especially for newcomer, believe me, I know a LOT of people who skip the verification because they must open up a terminal. I find this tool very useful because it looks really nice and very easy to use. Thanks for the heads up 🙏

faustipez
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I believe Dolphin on KDE Plasma has a checksum checker built in just access the given files properties click on the checksum tab, enter the expected checksum in and it'll tell you if its as expected.

rejan
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Although a bit of a traditionalist, sticking to .deb packages, to unreservedly embrace the flatpack package format this is still a nifty Linux program to have available. Thank you!

ktheodor
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Well done and presented! Such a time saver! Thank you!👍

johng.
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was hoping for something that also checks for PGP signature :)

Flowxp
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Hey Tom,
Have you or anyone you’ve known ever checked the hash and found it NOT to be a match? Do you report it? I’ve never checked the hash but am going to start doing so starting now!

IBDman
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😉Interesting... i've never heard of this tool

FrBrossard
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Would probably use if it wasn't for >600Mb! and requiring 2Gb hard drive space

kychemclass
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I use the command sha256 -c sha256sum.txt to make the process easier. Most distros have such a file, I usually rename those to remind me which package they belong to like: for Linux Mint I have linuxmint-20.3-64bit.sha265

OldieBugger