On May 17, 2012, at 8:08 AM, Keshav Kini wrote:

>>> Why not just look at the md5 checksum? That would have saved you
>>> downloading it a second time, and you would be 99.9999999 (not sure
>>> how many 9s) percent sure the file is not corrupted.
>> 
>> Why?  Because I don't know how to apply the checksum to test the downloaded 
>> file.
> 
> For future reference, run `md5sum <filename>` in a terminal to check the
> MD5 sum of a file.

Thank you Keshav. This is helpful. I will file this away in my list of helpful 
things to know.
Jim

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