[plug] using apt-get to check integrity of packages

[Alan Graham]

Is this the result of an email virus?  Or do you have a variant of the
old 'jive' program set up as a mail filter?

:-)

Alan

On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 21:10, David Buddrige wrote:
> Hi all,dadaI did most of my debian installation over a modem link.  I got 
> the basicdasystem installed first, and then connected to ftp.uwa.edu.au 
> todadownload the rest over my 56kbps modem over a period of three or dafour 
> nights. dadaHowever, my ISP sometimes kicked me off at various points during 
> thedadownload (because I'd been on for more than 2 hours) and 
> subsequentlydaI am not sure whether the packages were downloaded properly.  
> dadaIs apt-get smart enough to figure out that a given .deb package 
> isdaincomplete and either download from where it left off or at 
> leastdare-download that package?dadaI am trying to figure out how to check 
> the integrity of the packagesdaon my system - ideally to get the system to 
> check all of them - ratherdathan having to specify each package 
> one-at-a-time, and ideally todathen download whatever it needs to to fix the 
> corrupt/incomplete dapackages.  I've been reading through the man pages for 
> apt-get anddaapt-cache but to no avail so far.dadaAny help hugely 
> appreciateddadathanks heaps in advancedadaDavid Buddrige
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