[scribus] checksum for scribus-1.3.9-win32-install.exe ?

[John Culleton]

On Thursday 09 December 2010 05:53:00 PeterS wrote:
> > i don't know why you are getting the checksums from chip.eu...
> >
> > on the other side, it seams that the scribus team stopped to
> > produce checksums for their downloads, or sourceforge stopped
> > providing them, or one of borh is hiding them very well...
> >
> > ciao
> > a.l.e
>
> Hi a.l.e.,
>
> thank you very much for trying to help me.
> I am not getting my checksums from chip.eu, I am just saying that I
> couldn't find the checksum for scribus-1.3.9-win32-install.exe -
> neither on the scribus site, nor on the sourceforge site
> (as I said, only for the scribus *source*).
>
> So I ran a Google search and found that chip.eu gives the same
> ckecksum for *both* 1.3.8 and 1.3.9, which, as you also pointed
> out, doesn't make any sense.
>
> That's why I am asking on this list, hoping that somebody from the
> Scribus team can tell me the checksum for
> scribus-1.3.9-win32-install.exe or, maybe, tell me that there
> doesn't exist a checksum for scribus-1.3.9-win32-install.exe.
>
> I wrote:
> >> before installing Scribus 1.3.9 I'd like to do a checksum
> >> verification for scribus-1.3.9-win32-install.exe downloaded from
> >> sourceforge.net
> >> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus-devel/1.3
> >>.9/)
> >>
> >> http://www.scribus.net/node/233 only mentions the *source*
> >> verification checksums.
> >>
> >> chip.eu (don't know if they are trustworthy, the entries seem to
> >> be provided by the users rather than being an editorial choice)
> >> have the checksum "631EFECF7BE8C93B5CBE47F9D8B54071" for 
*both*
> >> 1.3.8 and 1.3.9.
>
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I never use checksums. If the program or source download doesn't work 
right then I download it again. That rarely happens, may be once every 
two years or so. My advice: just download the .exe file and execute it. 
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