RDEBSUMS(1)

📦 version 3.0.2.4, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 RDEBSUMS 💖 (that's the rdebsums manual, section 1, bestie)

okay so real talk, this is the manual page for rdebsums, and it's literally the Recursive debsums situation. sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, we're doing this.

✨ NAME ✨

rdebsums — a recursive debsums 🌀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

rdebsums --help  | [  debsum options  ] [  --others  ] package

like. that's it. that's the shape of it 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so rdebsums runs debsums(1) over a given package and all its dependencies. that's the whole bit. it's giving "recursive" and it ate. 🔥

why would you even do that? because it lets you make sure a problem with a package is not due to file corruption. super useful when something's acting cursed and you need to know if the files themselves are the problem. vibe check for your package files, no cap.

and here's the lil detail you cannot miss: all but the last element of the command-line and options understood by rdebsums get sent straight to debsums(1). so everything except that final package name? yeah, it's debsums's problem now. 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • --help — prints a short help text. short. help. text. iconic behaviour honestly 👑
  • --others — also runs debsums on Recommended and Suggested packages. going the extra mile, main character energy 🌈

🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

check the package aptitude and all its dependencies:

rdebsums aptitude

the same, while being significantly less verbose:

rdebsums -s aptitude

see how -s just... went along for the ride? that's the "all but the last element" thing from up there. iykyk 💅

💀 BUGS 💀

okay bestie, the disclaimers. don't shoot the messenger 🙈

  • rdebsums is quite slow — essentially due to dpkg-query not being extremely fast. not us. it's dpkg-query. periodt. 😭
  • currently, rdebsums will be confused by virtual packages. yeah. it just gets confused. we don't make the rules.
  • --others is actually nearly useless, as you often end up checking nearly all packages. and like — you'll most probably win time by running debsums without arguments. so uh. do that instead. 🍓
not me warning you about a flag that's in the options list. the manpage said it first, i'm just the messenger 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

rdebsums was written by Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@debian.org> 💖 absolute legend, we stan.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

and that's the whole page!! Version 0.1, dated 2007-03-29 — a lil vintage icon from back in the day, and it still slays ✨💅🦋 mwah, go check your packages bestie 🫶

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