[sf-lug] looking fruitlessly for SHA256sum

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Bobbie Sellers (bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com):

>     Well Luggers,
>         I downloaded Fedora 18 .isos one with KDE and the other with
> some other desktop environment and need to make sure the .isos
> are good but my distro does not have a version of SHA256sum
> nor have I been able to locate a site with an .rpm or other file
> for Mandriva or any other version which I can download to check
> those .iso files.

/usr/bin/sha256sum is an integral part of GNU coreutils.

So, for example:
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/19399670/dir/mandriva_2011/com/coreutils-8.12-1.2-mdv2011.0.i586.rpm.html

(But, don't get it off the Internet.  Get it from your distro package
system.)