Captain, thanks for your reply. I downloaded Linux Mint Mate 19.3 64bit from a download link on Linuxmint.com. They had directions there to compare checksums. And that succeeded perfectly. Also they had Authenticity Check which stalled when their windows terminal commands included gpg, such as;ok i think i saw you asking about how to verify a download. I will give you a simple working example . Go to https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/academic/latex2html/?search=latex2html
you will see source for latex2html-2019.2.tar.gz and next to it a number .left click on
latex2html-2019.2.tar.gz where it says soruce and that will download it. Then :
bash-5.0$ cd ~
bash-5.0$ cd Downloads
bash-5.0$ ls --color
latex2html-2019.2.tar.gz
bash-5.0$ md5sum latex2html-2019.2.tar.gz
e9ca34903ac23a6f51385f05fa63c6eb latex2html-2019.2.tar.gz
bash-5.0$
The number generated by md5sum should match that quoted on slackbuilds. Now they say slackware is complicated but thats before you read ubuntu which has a similar but more comlicated way of going about it but principle is same
gpg --verify sha256sum.txt.gpg sha256sum.txt
Do we need the authenticity check?
jj
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