1 [[!meta title="Calculating checksums using GtkHash"]]
3 [<span class="application">GtkHash</span>](http://gtkhash.sourceforge.net/)
4 allows you to calculate [[!wikipedia checksum desc="checksums"]]. Checksums can
5 be useful to verify the integrity of a file, for example, if you downloaded it
8 To calculate the checksum of a file:
10 1. Open the <span class="application">Nautilus</span> file browser, either
11 from the <span class="guimenu">Places</span> menu or the <span
12 class="guilabel">Computer</span> icon on the desktop.
14 1. Navigate to the folder containing the file that you want to calculate the
17 1. Right-click on the file and choose <span class="guimenuitem">Properties</span>.
19 1. In the <span class="guimenuitem">Properties</span> dialog, click on the
20 <span class="guilabel">Digests</span> tab.
22 [[!img gtkhash.png link="no"]]
24 1. In the <span class="guilabel">Hash Function</span> column of the
25 <span class="guilabel">Digests</span> tabbed section, select the check boxes
26 corresponding to the checksums that you want to calculate.
28 1. Click on the <span class="button">Hash</span> button.
30 1. The calculated checksums appear in the <span class="guilabel">Digest</span>