NAME

rdebsums - a recursive debsums

SYNOPSIS

rdebsums --help | [ debsum options ] [ --others ] package

DESCRIPTION

rdebsums runs debsums(1) over a given package and all its dependencies. It can be used to make sure a problem with a package is not due to file corruption.

All but the last element of the command-line and options understood by rdebsums are sent to debsums(1).

OPTIONS

--help: Prints a short help text
--others: Also runs debsums on Recommended and Suggested packages.

EXAMPLES

Check the package aptitude and all its dependencies:

rdebsums aptitude

The same while being significantly less verbose

rdebsums -s aptitude

BUGS

rdebsums is quite slow - essentially due to dpkg-query not being extremely fast.

Currently, rdebsums will be confused by virtual packages.

--others is actually nearly useless, as you often end up checking nearly all packages. You'll most probably win time by running debsums without arguments.

AUTHOR

rdebsums was written by Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@debian.org>