how to verify installation?

[Leonard Chatagnier]

 Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net



----- Original Message ----
> From: Randall J. Parr <RParr at TemporalArts.COM>
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 4:00:24 PM
> Subject: how to verify installation?
> 
> I have a Ubuntu hardy system which appears to have developed some bad 
> blocks and/or file corruption on an SATA drive.
> 
> I have used fsck to fix the problem but it found a couple files with 
> multiply-chained blocks.
> 
> Now the disk is running fine but I am concerned a have a couple bad 
> and/or missing files.
> 
> 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?
> 
Someone else said use debsums but left a caveat that if might not be usable after updating.  I just ran it on my hardy kde 4.1 fully updated  and it worked fine.  Most of the output said OK, a few showed FAILED.  Do "sudo debsums | grep FAILED" and only get the problem output.  HTH,