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remn

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having trouble verifying the .iso for installation

I'm trying to install arch for the first time, but I haven't been able to get past the verification stage. First I tried using the pgp signature but I was unable to import the key from the server (keyserver communications error: general error).

Then I tried using both the MD5 and SHA1 checksums but neither matched when I checked them at onlinemd5.com. I downloaded the .iso from the magnet link at this site:

https://www.archlinux.org/download/

That's also where I got the checksums. Any suggestions? Is the torrent file corrupt or are the checksums out of date?

graysky

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Re: having trouble verifying the .iso for installation

So you have both the iso and the sig file?  Post the output of

pacman-key -v archlinux-2015.09.01-dual.iso.sig

It should show:

% pacman-key -v archlinux-2015.09.01-dual.iso.sig
==> Checking archlinux-2015.09.01-dual.iso.sig ...
gpg: assuming signed data in 'archlinux-2015.09.01-dual.iso'
gpg: Signature made Tue 01 Sep 2015 01:51:25 PM EDT using RSA key ID 9741E8AC
gpg: Note: trustdb not writable
gpg: Good signature from "Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de>" [full]

If it does not, delete the iso and redownload it, then try again.

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remn

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Re: having trouble verifying the .iso for installation

I can't run pacman because I'm in Ubuntu. I don't currently have an arch installation, this is my first attempt at installing it. When I tried running that command it said "command not found."

I tried downloading the .iso from 2 different mirrors to see if I could get it to match that way. But neither of the files I downloaded matched the checksums.

Last edited by remn (2015-10-01 20:48:03)

remn

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Re: having trouble verifying the .iso for installation

I used the md5sum command in the terminal and the hash matched. Don't know why it doesn't match on onlinemd5.com but I'll trust the result I got from md5sum!