debsums

The debsums program is a utility for Ubuntu and other Debian-based systems that checks the MD5 sums of every installed package against the md5sum files found in the /var/lib/dpkg/info directory.

Install this program with the following command: sudo aptitude install debsums

common debsums options


debsums -a Checks all files (including configuration files which are, by default, left out).


debsums –e Checks config files for packages only.

debsums –c Lists only changed files to stdout.

debsums –l Lists files that don’t have md5sum info.

debsums –s Lists only errors; otherwise be silent.

debsums Lists the packages you want debsums to analyze.