Download page uses shasum from Perl, instead of GNU coreutils sha256sum

[wxl at riseup.net]

On January 12, 2020 3:39:10 AM PST, Witold Baryluk <witold.baryluk at gmail.com> wrote:
>current download verify dialog shows this:
>echo "96a8095001d447bbb9078925d72f7a77a3f62fbd78460093759af4394ce83d79
>*ubuntu-19.10-desktop-amd64.iso" | shasum -a 256 --check
>but the `shasum` is a program implemented in Perl, which might not be
>installed. 

The code implementing that is here:
https://github.com/canonical-web-and-design/ubuntu.com/blob/9abdfa9f6c21305590b57a8b044174578da04a4e/templates/download/shared/_verify-checksums.html#L8

You can file an issue in that repo to resolve this.