how to verify installation?

[Brian McKee]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Randall J. Parr <RParr at temporalarts.com> wrote:
> On an RPM based system I can verify the installation against the package
> files and find out which files are missing or different than in the rpm
> file.
>
> How do I do the equivalent verification (or something similar) on a
> Debian/Ubuntu deb based system?

I think you are looking for 'debsums' which is a separate program.
I have no experience with it.
I wonder how useful that is considering the number of files that are
changed/added after installation of a package though.

HTH
Brian