How can I find checksums (hash) within Nautilus in 24.04?

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Ubuntu Version: 24.04

Desktop Environment: GNOME

Problem Description

In Ubuntu 22.04 and prior, I could right-click a file in Nautilus and ask to see the digests. There was a large choice of different digests, e.g. MD5 and SHA512.

This functionality came from the app nautilus-gtkhash.

Unfortunately, the upgrade from 22.04 to 24.04 remove this app, and it’s unavailable in the standard repositories.

I’ve been searching for an alternative way to implement this, but haven’t found it.

Question

Do you know how to implement digests in Nautilus on Ubuntu 24.04?

Bonus question: The same question applies to folder-color, which allowed me to set colours for folders within Nautilus.

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It appears that the nautilus extension needs to be updated to gtk4, according to this issue in the upstream repository.

One workaround is to use Nemo instead of Nautilus, and install nemo-gtkhash.

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Thank you for the suggestion.

I use Nautilus scripts. Does Nemo allow the same thing, so I could transfer them?

Thinking about this, I guess that I could write a script for Nautilus to show the hashes.

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Check out this extension GitHub - dd-se/nautilus-extension-quick-file-hasher: A modern Nautilus (GNOME Files) Python extension and standalone GTK4/libadwaita app to compute hashes for files and folders, with a beautiful UI and clipboard integration.

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Thank you, @Nemo

I’ll have a look.

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@Nemo — I’ve installed this, and tested it.

I have a problem in that I can only find SHA256 hashes for a file. That’s the default. I right-click a file > Calculate Hashes, and it shows me SHA256.

When I change the hash to something else, say MD5, nothing happens; the window still shows the SHA256 result. When I close the app and retry, it goes right back to SHA256.

Do you know how to calculate a hash other than SHA256?