Verify installed packages (*.rpm | *.deb)

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#1 Tue, 07/09/2013 - 08:38
warphost

Verify installed packages (*.rpm | *.deb)

Hi,

Is there a way to verify all installed virtualmin packages without upsetting a typical installation?

For example, in rpm-based systems you could do: rpm -Va to verify all installed packages. On debian-based systems, you can use sudo debsums -c or sudo debsums_init to check for changed files or re-install and verify all packages.

The question is, because virtualmin, webmin etc installs custom versions of typical server packages, is it a risk to run an automated re-install like this?

Thanks.

Tue, 07/09/2013 - 10:04
andreychek

Howdy,

Virtualmin primarily uses packages provided by your distro, though in a handful of cases, will provide packages from the software.virtualmin.com repo.

However, that's a normal repository, and is setup for use by yum/apt.

It should be no problem to verify the packages as you normally would.

-Eric

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