Installing KDE Edition: authenticating the image?

Ask Fedora
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After downloading and before writing the KDE Plasma Edition image to USB , do I need to “verify” it? How do I do that?

Update: Thank you, Rick, P G, Jeff and noname19 for your quick responses! P G and noname19, thanks for letting know that I don’t have to verify. Great news!

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Download Keys:

curl -O https://fedoraproject.org/fedora.pgp
curl -O https://fedoraproject.org/fedora.gpg

I don’t always run those but It’s wise to do so.

This is all I run,
Verify Checksum:

gpgv --keyring ./fedora.gpg --output - Fedora-KDE-*.CHECKSUM | sha256sum -c --ignore-missing

If the output states the file is valid, the download is secure and intact.
Have Fun :slight_smile:

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If you use the Fedora Media Writer to select and download the Fedora KDE image, the verification is done for you.

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The download page has a link to obtain the checksum for the image.
Download that and save the linked data to a file in the same place as you saved the iso image.

If you are doing so on a linux system then in a terminal window in the same directory you could use sha512sum command to verify the image.
In my case, with a Workstation image the command would be
sha512sum -c CHECKSUM* Fedora-Workstation-Live-44-1.7.x86_64.iso to verify the Workstation iso image.
One of the returned lines should show something like this but for your actual iso image. F44-WORK-x86_64-LIVE-20260501.iso: OK
You probably have the F44-KDE-x86_64-LIVE-20260501.iso

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Fedora is now using sha512sum for the iso images and the checksum file downloaded is named CHECKSUM512-20260501 for f44 files.

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years ago when it was common to have internet connection problems, sometimes a web browser would download just part of the file and say it finished

the checksum guarantees the file is complete and functional, instead of giving you a 200mbs file, you get the whole 3gbs file, for example

alot of people these days have optical fiber in their homes, rarely you need to worry about a file being broken or incomplete

how you check the checksum depends on the os you are on now, if you are on windows, the microsoft store has some to check the file once you downloaded it, the process should give you a line of characters that has to be identical to the one shared on the website where you downloaded the file

i no longer check isos, it takes more time for me to check the iso than download another with a gigabit connection

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Thank You my Notes are dated 2024>>>Now updated1 :wink: