How to verify the correctness of your downloaded Visual Paradigm software package

If you found that the Visual Paradigm software package you just downloaded cannot be executed, this could be caused by the file you downloaded was incomplete or corrupted. Visual Paradigm offer MD5 and sha256 checksum to the software packages. With the checksum you can make sure the software package you downloaded is genuine, corrupt-free and safe to use.

Obtain checksum of Visual Paradigm software package

To obtain checksum of Visual Paradigm’s software package:

1. Select Try Now at the top of Visual Paradigm website.
   

   Visit download page in Visual Paradigm’s website

2. Select More Options in the download page.
   

   Select More Options

3. Press Verifying Download with Checksum at the bottom right corner of the download options.
   

   Select Verifying Download with Checksum

4. After that a new page will pop out showing the MD5 and sha256 checksum of the Visual Paradigm software package.
   

   Checksum of Visual Paradigm’s software package

Generate checksum for your downloaded file

Most of the OS comes with utilities to generate checksum for files. Once you obtained the checksum you can then compare it with those published on Visual Paradigm’s website to ensure the correctness of the downloaded file. To generate checksum:

For Windows

You can execute the following command in Command Prompt:

certutil –hashfile %file_path% %hash_algorithm%

MD5 checksum of download file generated on Windows

For Linux

You can run the md5sum command in Terminal to generate MD5 checksum of the downloaded file.

md5sum %file_path%

MD5 checksum of download file generated on Linux

For Mac

You can run the md5 command in Terminal to generate MD5 checksum of the downloaded file.

md5 %file_path%

MD5 checksum of download file generated on Mac