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Stefan Lasiewski
Asked: 2010-10-26 11:02:40 +0800 CST

What is the apt equivalent to "rpm -V" (Verify installed packages)

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On a RedHat/CentOS system, I can verify the installed RPMs on my system using rpm -V.

What is the Ubuntu or apt equivalent of this command?

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  1. Best Answer

    The package "debsums" is what you want to install to perform hash checks against installed packages.

    For example, to check for changed files:

    sudo debsums -c

    Note that not all packages ship with md5sum file lists. You can see a list of those on your system with:

    sudo debsums -l
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  2. To followup to what Kees said, to deal with packages that don't include a buildtime generated debsums md5sum file, by default the debsums package also installs an apt hook to generate a debsums as part of the package installation process. Thus, one way to generate the debsums file for those packages that are missing them is to apt-get install --reinstall them.

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