Re: [PLUG] Oops, quickly over my head with Ubuntu package management

[Chaz Meyers <plug@thechaz.net>]

I think it's provided by coreutils.

[ cpm juno ~ ] dpkg -L coreutils | grep sha256
/usr/share/man/man1/sha256sum.1.gz
/usr/bin/sha256sum

- Chaz Meyers




On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Eric<eric@lucii.org> wrote:
> I have a command on my Ubuntu system called sha256sum.  How do I find what
> package that is in so that I can install it on another server?  I need to access
> it via PHP to create checksums.  It works just fine on my workstation but does
> not exist on the target system.
>
> I tried to search in Google using this string:
>    ubuntu "install sha256sum" -fedora
> There were 5 responses and they were were either in Japanese/Chinese or they
> indicated that I could have Google translate it.
>
> At that point, I'm thinking "Luke, you're in deep doo-doo(1)... very very deep."
>
> Extra information:
>
> My system:
>        cat /etc/*release
>        DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
>        DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.10
>        DISTRIB_CODENAME=intrepid
>        DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.10"
>
> The target system:
>        cat /etc/*release
>        DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
>        DISTRIB_RELEASE=6.06
>        DISTRIB_CODENAME=dapper
>        DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 6.06.2 LTS"
>
> TIA
> Eric
>
> (1) safe for work translation.
>
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