# Md5sums for previous versions (Arch Linux)

**URL:** <https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/md5sums-for-previous-versions-arch-linux/73673>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** v3\_5\
**Created:** [January 15, 2022, 6:06pm UTC](https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/md5sums-for-previous-versions-arch-linux/73673 "2022-01-15T18:06:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![LeroyJS](https://forum.vassalengine.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/ce73a5/32.png) [@LeroyJS](https://forum.vassalengine.org/u/LeroyJS)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 6:06pm UTC](https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/md5sums-for-previous-versions-arch-linux/73673/1 "2022-01-15T18:06:36Z")

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I would like to install an older version of Vassal on a linux system. I cloned the repo to my machine and changed the `pkgver` variable in the `PKGBUILD` script to 3.5.8. However, it fails upon build because the md5sums are not correct.

Do you know where I can get working md5 sums for this particular version?

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**Author:** ![uckelman](https://forum.vassalengine.org/user_avatar/forum.vassalengine.org/uckelman/32/10020_2.png) [@uckelman](https://forum.vassalengine.org/u/uckelman)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/md5sums-for-previous-versions-arch-linux/73673/2 "2022-01-15T18:11:00Z")

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You can produce MD5s yourself from the [release archive](https://github.com/vassalengine/vassal/releases). We’ve published SHA256 hashes for every version from 3.2.17, so you can check what you download against those before running `md5sum`.

Also: What script are you talking about? I don’t recognize `pkgver` or `PKGBUILD` as anything in our repo.

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**Author:** ![LeroyJS](https://forum.vassalengine.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/ce73a5/32.png) [@LeroyJS](https://forum.vassalengine.org/u/LeroyJS)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 6:19pm UTC](https://forum.vassalengine.org/t/md5sums-for-previous-versions-arch-linux/73673/3 "2022-01-15T18:19:23Z")

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Excellent, thank you. I’ll look into those.

`pkgver` and `PKGBUILD` are things you sometimes tweak when installing things from the Arch User Repository (where Vassal currently resides). It has nothing to do with Vassal directly.