How To Install qphotorec on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install qphotorec on Rocky Linux 8. qphotorec is Signature based file carver. Recover lost files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install qphotorec on Rocky Linux 8.

What is qphotorec

QPhotoRec is a Qt version of PhotoRec. It is a signature based file recovery utility. It handles more than 440 file formats including JPG, MSOffice, OpenOffice documents.

We can use yum or dnf to install qphotorec on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qphotorec.

Install qphotorec on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install qphotorec using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qphotorec

Install qphotorec on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install qphotorec using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qphotorec

How To Uninstall qphotorec on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the qphotorec package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove qphotorec

qphotorec Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/qphotorec
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b/02d555adfed94640a0634d225147910f82bbd0
/usr/share/applications/qphotorec.desktop
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/qphotorec.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/qphotorec.svg
/usr/share/man/man8/qphotorec.8.gz
/usr/share/man/zh_CN/man8/qphotorec.8.gz

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install qphotorec on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.