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Verifying the MD5 Checksum

After you have downloaded a MySQL package, you should make surę that its MD5 checksum matches

the one provided on the MySQL download pages. Each package has an individual checksum that

you can verify against the package that you downloaded. The correct MD5 checksum is listed on the

downloads page for each MySQL product, and you will compare it against the MD5 checksum of the file (product) that you download.

Each operating system and setup offers its own version of tools for checking the MD5 checksum.

Typically the command is named md5sum, or it may be named md5, and some operating systems do

not ship it at all. On Linux, it is part of the GNU Text Utilities package, which is available for a wide

rangę of platforms. You can also download the source codę from http://www.gnu.org/software/textutils/.

If you have OpenSSL installed, you can use the command openssl md5 package_name instead.

A Windows implementation of the md5 command linę utility is available from http://www.fourmilab.ch/

md5/. winMd5Sum is a graphical MD5 checking tool that can be obtained from http://www.nullriver.com/

index/products/winmd5sum. Our Microsoft Windows examples will assume the name md5. exe.

Linux and Microsoft Windows examples:

shell>md5sum mysql-standard-5.6.14-linux-i686.tar.gz

aaab65abbec64d5e907dcd41b8699945 mysql-standard-5.6.14-1inux-i686.tar.gz

shell>md5.exe mysql-installer-coinnunity-5.6.14.msi

aaab65abbec64d5e907dcd41b8699945 mysql-installer-community-5.6.14.msi

You should verify that the resulting checksum (the string of hexadecimal digits) matches the one

displayed on the download page immediately below the respective package.