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http://forums.opensuse.org – Well, shoot, I can't even get 11.2 downloaded. I am currently running OpenSUSE 11.1, KDE 4.1.3. After every attempt to download, I get the wrong md5 checksum. I've tried about 8 times now. I'm not even getting consistent checksums. First I tried BitTorrent using KGet, and then after reading the Download help I tried DownThemAll. It takes a little longer than overnight for me to download on my DSL connection. Is there any downloading tool or method that does error detection and correction BEFORE the download completes? Much obliged for advice. :shake: (Distributions)

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Hi,

I often download different distros and try them out, but is there a way to check the checksum while downloading the iso? I think that the download must complete first to do the checksum, right? I have a slow net connection and thus i have to use BitTorrent or Gwget download manager. Thanks.

Attention Suse download maintainers:

I have been downloading the 11.2 live cd all weekend (32 bit version) - and every time I've gotten a bad checksum. Also, the md5 hash link shows an md5 sum from the wrong file - i586, when the download is i686.

I downloaded v. 12.10 last night but accidentally closed a window that had the download going in one of the tabs.

I want to download an Ubuntu ISO, preferably over bittorrent, and verify its integrity.

Currently, the following steps are required:

start web browser, go to ubuntu.com, find download link find gpg signature for the checksums get the gpg key to check gpg signature of the checksums wait until download finished gpg verifiy checksum verification

Isn't there a simpler way?

Firefox and DownThemAll 3 years 24 weeks ago

Hello,

I have installed openSuSE 11.2 x86_64 with KDE 4.3 on a VGN_AR41L. I use firefox for web browsing and I have installed the add-on DownThemAll for download manager. In Windows when a download finishes the DownThemAll add-on produces a sound. This does not happen in openSuSE. My sound card works well because I can hear sound from Youtube videos.

Any advice?

All add-ons that I have reviewed here, I have been using for a long time. So indirectly I am responsible with what I write here :( Therefore, what would I write here is really my opinion about these add-ons.

Getting wrong MD5 Sum. 43 weeks 3 days ago

I have gotten the wrong MD5 sum with 2 different x86_64 downloads. One was FTP, the other Bittorrent... But I got the same wrong MD5 sum from each download. What am I doing wrong? I used the built in terminal MD5 checker from OSX.

26f3358a5f8973f0956093f28a0106e7

This is what I got both times. I thought Bittorrent checked this as you download? What am I doing wrong?

Dear All,

I am running a big ftp server on Proftpd, i need to limit the 1 same file download per IP so that customers download files should not download same file at a time. Is there any tool or method of doing it.

Please advice,

Ghulam Yaseen

I have this weird problem. Whenever I download a compressed file, md5 checksum value changes in my downloaded copy.

For example I downloaded Django package from https://www.djangoproject.com/m/releases/1.4/Django-1.4.2.tar.gz, using wget. The md5 checksum given in django site is 6ffecdc01ad360e1abdca1015ae0893a.