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RDEBSUMS(1) Recursive debsums RDEBSUMS(1)

rdebsums - a recursive debsums

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

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).

Prints a short help text

Also runs debsums on Recommended and Suggested packages.

Check the package aptitude and all its dependencies:

rdebsums aptitude

The same while being significantly less verbose

rdebsums -s aptitude

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.

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

debsums(1), dpkg-query(1)

2007-03-29 Version 0.1