How To Install Md5sum On Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora, Raspbian And MacOS?

How To Install Md5sum On Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora, Raspbian And MacOS?

md5sum

Calculate MD5 cryptographic checksums.

Maintainer: Michael Stone



Section: utils

Install md5sum

  • Debian apt-get install coreutils Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install coreutils Click to copy
  • Alpine OS apk add coreutils Click to copy
  • Arch Linux pacman -S coreutils Click to copy
  • Kali Linux apt-get install coreutils Click to copy
  • CentOS yum install coreutils Click to copy
  • Fedora dnf install coreutils Click to copy
  • Raspbian apt-get install coreutils Click to copy
  • macOS brew install md5sha1sum Click to copy

Calculate MD5 cryptographic checksums.

How to use md5sum?

Below are few example commands for md5sum that you can use in the terminal.

Calculate the MD5 checksum for a file:
md5sum filename1Click to copy
Calculate MD5 checksums for multiple files:
md5sum filename1 filename2Click to copy
Read a file of MD5SUMs and verify all files have matching checksums:
md5sum -c filename.md5Click to copy
Installation of latest md5sum command is available for Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, CentOS, Fedora, Raspbian and macOS. You can copy the command for your OS from above and paste it into your terminal. Once you run the command it will download the 2026 latest package from the repository and install it in your computer/server.