Translations:Check a Downloaded ISO Image For Errors/10/en

To check the integrity of your downloaded file, it will be necessary to first open the downloaded checksum file using a text editor such as Gedit. Depending on whether you intend to use sha1 or sha256, ensure that you have downloaded and opened the appropriate checksum file, that is one ending in *.sha1sum or *.sha256sum respectively) as they will contain different codes. Once the checksum file has been opened and the code is visible, open up your terminal and change to the directory where your downloaded ISO is stored. For example, if your ISO file is located in the default Downloads folder, you would enter the following command: