Instructions
It is essential that you verify the integrity of the downloaded installer files to ensure the file you downloaded is not currupt. Fiorano provides pre-calculated hash values using SHA1 and MD5 Algorithms for each installer. One can use the Fiorano provided checksum utility or other command line programs like md5sum/sha1sum/md5/sha1 to check the integrity.
How to check:
The simple way is download the 'Fiorano checksum utility', provide the values for the properties specified in 'checksum.properties' file and run the 'ant' command. You will directly receive the result of the downloaded installer file's integrity check.
OR
Run the command md5sum/sha1sum or md5/sha1.
Let's say you want to check the file fsoa_***.exe using MD5, type the command below in the terminal.
$ md5sum fsoa_***.exe
After running this command, md5sum prints out the 128-bit hash value. Compare this string you obtained with the hash value provided at the product downloads link. If both are identical, then the download is accurate else the download is corrupt, Please download the installer again.
Similarilly one can perform the above steps after executing the following command using 'sha1sum', that prints out 160-bit hash value for fsoa_***.tar.gz file.
$ sha1sum fsoa_***.tar.gz
Note
- The 'Fiorano checksum' utility uses java 1.5 or above and ANT 1.6.5 or above.
- Unix programs called md5sum/sha1sum or md5/sha1 are included in many unix distributions.
- Windows users can get binary md5 programs from here, here.
- fsum - 'File Integrity Checker' can be used to calculate both SHA1 and MD5 hash values.