On 17 Jul 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > Hi, > > I suspect some of the .deb files for Debian 1.3.1 are corrupted > in my hard disk after some problems with bad sectors. > > Is there a way to check for integrity of these files with dpkg > or something else? > You can use md5sums to verify their integrity. There is a list of the correct checksum values in the indices directory of the archive that you can use to compare with the values that md5sum gives for the packages.
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