NAME

       rdebsums - a recursive debsums

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

       rdebsums  runs debsums(1) over a given package and all its dependencies. It can be used to
       make sure a problem with a package is not due to file corruption.

       All but the last element of the command-line and options understood by rdebsums  are  sent
       to debsums(1).

OPTIONS

       --help Prints a short help text

       --others
              Also runs debsums on Recommended and Suggested packages.

EXAMPLES

       Check the package aptitude and all its dependencies:

       rdebsums aptitude

       The same while being significantly less verbose

       rdebsums -s aptitude

BUGS

       rdebsums is quite slow - essentially due to dpkg-query not being extremely fast.

       Currently, rdebsums will be confused by virtual packages.

       --others  is  actually  nearly  useless, as you often end up checking nearly all packages.
       You'll most probably win time by running debsums without arguments.

AUTHOR

       rdebsums was written by Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@debian.org>

SEE ALSO

       debsums(1), dpkg-query(1)