Fedora Everything Checksum

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Hi,
Does Fedora Everything use checksums to verify after downloading?
Thanks

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The everything iso has its own checksum that the user can use to verfiy the iso image.

Installing by using that image allows the user to select items to be installed then basically uses dnf to manage the packages installed. Dnf is very robust in verifying the integrity of each package downloaded and will not use one that does not validate – in fact it will redo the download for packages that fail checks. This means an ‘everything’ install is just as secure as installing or upgrading packages on an already running system.

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You can find the checksums on the downloads page and also a link to Fefora security practices.

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Thanks Jeff, great to hear that it’s just as secure.

Are you saying that Fedora Everything builds via DNF to get to the specified operating system type, as opposed to downloading the relevant ISO?
For instance, if I chose Fedora Workstation, it would append a minimal instance with the relevant packages.
If so, are there any drawbacks and would the OS installed with Everything be the same as if I had used the relevant ISO media?

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It might be more up to date, but essentially the same.

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Yes that’s right.

There is a “download the relevant ISO for me” tool too, but that’s the Fedora Media Writer app.

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I use the Everything *.iso for installing and have done for years.

Under installation source, you should have two options, one of which is to download what would come on the original release *.isos, the second option allows you to choose the most recent packages. I always choose the most recent packages. So as @theprogram says, it’s more up-to-date, but the same.

Under software selection, you can choose your spin/DE and bundled software groups to install or remove. For instance, I install the KDE Plasma desktop. By default it has a few bundled software groups enabled that I don’t want (kde-apps, kde-media and kde-pim). I disable those and leave only the firefox and libreoffice software groups enabled so only those addtional software groups get pulled in when it’s downloading the packages to install.

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Sometimes fixing a problem is easier if you can boot a Live USB Installer. I use a Ventoy USB dongle with a Fedora Live ISO as well as memtest86+ and gparted.