How do I check the SHA1 hash of a file?
Ubuntu – How to check the SHA1 hash of a file
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You don't say what window manager or file manager you're using.
If you're using Gnome and Nautilus you can install nautilus-gtkhash package. This adds a "Digests" tab to the Properties dialog for a file.
NOTE: You will have to restart Nautilus with nautilus -q before the tab will appear.
There are several possible reasons for corruption. It can be that your USB stick is bad (e.g. there are some which lie about their size and corrupt the data at the end). It can be that your image writing software is bad. It seems (from various pages on the internet) that Universal USB installer can incorrectly write files to the USB stick so that was probably the explanation in this case. What you should do is find different software for writing the image and never use Universal-USB-Installer again.
You should never install from a corrupt image because it's completely possible for things to work now and then later you end up with data corruption or worse. If it does work that's just luck.
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sha1sum
If you want to send the file together with its sha1sum output redirect the output to a file:
Send both files and the other party can do a...
It should show
OKif thesha1is correct.