If both are giving that result both are installed. Fine.
So download the sha256sum file that sits alongside the .zip you downloaded.
Then open it in a text editor. In a Terminal run the command as I showed above.
You see that I was working in ~/Downloads as that is where the .zip file was.
Iāve right-clicked the link for the sha256sum to open under a new tab, and asked to save the file in Downloads. This resulted in a box saying something along the lines of not being able to save it, but it appeared in my Downloads anyway, and when I click on it from there, I see it also does the ~/Downloads
Sorry - what is the command to put into the Terminal now? /tabitha/~Downloads and then use the copy and paste for this long .zip?
I did not really understand!
Can you simply start a Terminal. Do
pwd
I expect you to see your name! Do
cd Downloads
Letās check you are in the same folder as your downloads. Do
ls -l
Those are both lower case L.
If you see both the file.zip (with a size of 900MB or so)
and the file.zip.shasum
you can just do
cat file.zip.shasum
then
sha256sum file.zip
In a Linux terminal you can do copy and paste by, Select text. move cursor to target position, press middle mouse button,
OK, I did all that. The file.zip has a number of 786101091, which I assume is the size of it.
I tried the two last commands you listed, and they both resulted in āno such file or directoryā.
please can you show the output of
ls -l
You probably have to change filename in the command
What @Piero meant was you canāt just copy āfileā.zip You have to paste in the āactual filenameā.zip
Your command will look like the example I gave earlier.
Only a bit better!
Just so we get our terminology right, I asked for and demonstrated āactual filenameā
But you substituted path and filename.
You did not need path in this case as you already āmoved intoā the directory you wanted to work in.
So I should type into the Terminal cat e-0.19etc.zip.sha256sum
?
The path is /home/tabitha/Downloads
?
Iāve tried cat e-0.19-o-20211023142277-stable-starlte.zip.sha256sum and it seems to match
I find the screenshots hard to read. I see one time it failed, one time you got a result. My eyes are not good enough to tell why!!
Perhaps you could practice copying your output onto a editor, and try to get your output to mimic mine. If you get that to work, you could copy it here when it looks right. The output must mimic post #75
cat is just meant to be an easy way to generate line 1.
What I didnāt understand about that is the bit about lineage, as I donāt see that anywhere with what I have done on my PC.
Ok I understand that. I did not have your .zip on my computer.
So I just quickly picked up that checksum trace from my own ~/Downloads folder.
The veeery long string at the start of line 1 is the āhashā. Hash is the magic product of the checksum command.
When someone uploads a file, they take the hash and publish it alongside so any one can do their own checksum to verify it.
All the lineage bit is the āactual filenameā
OK. I am trying to understand. I will have a go replicating and copying it here in a moā¦
9891ac79f1a1dc3c78cb73578c512c9e6786c0b65c8ab5d262063dbc61bdca7d lineage-19-o-20211023142277-recovery-a3xelte.img
tabitha@tabitha-HP-G62-Notebook-PC-:~Downloads$ sha256sum lineage-19-o-20211023142277-recovery-a3xelte.img
I feel sure you are going to tell me I have got this wrong, and I wouldnāt be surprised, as the recovery a3 etc. is not making any sense to me.
I am new to all this, so I am following you quite blindly. Thank you for your patience!
I feel sure it is time for a break!
You still have three choices, and it is still possible for things to go wrong, I am not in your chair!
I never saw your answer to my question, āSo did the familiar Easy Installer interface appear after that screen?ā Post #51
Different written instructions look more intuitive to different individuals!
Remember you have the install instructions as given in the link in Post #2 to double check with.
Do you have platform-tools installed? If not, please use the latest version and not apt-get in Mint.
If yes, you would be in a position to pick up Post #6 again.
I think Iāve done it:
after Downloads$ I put in sha256sum followed by the e-0.19etc.zip and there was a pause and it has turned out the same but with the hash in front of it, and the sha256sum gone. I think thatās it?
Thatās ok being patient.
I am following you quite blindly
Is less ok! To consolidate learning: To verify your download
we used the cat command on a text file to output the contents.
Then the sha256sum on a .zip file to produce a āhashā.
Then we compared the hash produced by the original distributor, with the hash you produced and found them identical.
If identical you verified the download.
I will be sure to check in tomorrow.
Hey guess what? I have /e/ OS on my phone! Yay!
I knew I was near the end and thatās why I wanted to try and finish it before going to bed.
Thank you SOOO much!
