md5sum: livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso.DIGESTS: no properly formatted MD5 checksum lines found
Forum post: Yes, there is a problem here. I get: md5sum: livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso.DIGESTS: no properly formatted MD5 checksum lines found And I used the Georgia Tech mirror, different than yours, so I suppose it's possible that the original checksum may not have been regenerated after some recent changes to the ISO. I'll see if a bug has been filed. In the mean time, if you want to proceed, it may be possible to use the regular install CD, if you are willing to try that.
The `md5sum` commands takes digest files that have ".md5" on the end. That does not mean that the checksum is invalid. Run `md5sum` on the file and compare the checksum in the file by hand.
There have been no changes to the ISO, whatsoever. The version of md5sum that comes with coreutils 5.93 works perfectly for verification using only: md5sum -c livecd-i686-installer-2006.0.iso.DIGESTS I just verified that this is the case.
It looks like the .DIGESTS file on the mirrors is actually formatted incorrectly, so it won't work with md5sum, but it won't work with anything else either.
Sorry to have submitted an invalid bug. But I ask that one additional aspect of this be considered. The fact that those lines are valid for a current user of coreutils 5.93 is of very much value to a potential convert from Windows or Mandrake or something. I was responding to a forum post from a new user who got that "improperly formatted lines" error using a current version of md5com (which is what the Gentoo Handbook suggests), and he also got the same error with slavasoft. I checked the file with the version of md5sum that comes in coreutils 5.2, which is used in the stable branch of another major distro (my Gentoo box is compiling right now), and I got the same error. It might be worth considering that we may have unecessarily limited access to the installers.
Okay, I'm an idiot - when I compare them manually it shows as fine. Sorry for wasting people's time. Just trying to help someone.
Everyone please leave this bug alone. I'm working right now to get an updated file to the mirrors. You were correct, the file is incorrect. Andrew never should have made this bug invalid in the first place.
This is sorta fixed... 2006.1 is out, and the .DIGESTS files are fine on it. I'm going to ensure that all future releases have .DIGESTS files that can be verified with shash *and* the coreutils programs.
