How To Install ddrescue on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ddrescue on CentOS 8.
What is ddrescue
GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or block device (hard disc, cd-rom, etc) to another, trying hard to rescue data in case of read errors. GNU ddrescue does not truncate the output file if not asked to. So, every time you run it on the same output file, it tries to fill in the gaps.
We can use yum or dnf to install ddrescue on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ddrescue.
Install ddrescue on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install ddrescue using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ddrescue
Install ddrescue on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install ddrescue using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ddrescue
How To Uninstall ddrescue on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the ddrescue package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ddrescue
ddrescue Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/ddrescue
/usr/bin/ddrescuelog
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/8d249e6d4903997ecb204e1651db229ba9659b
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a/61256fa6f031f496cd77e098c167639ccb482d
/usr/share/doc/ddrescue
/usr/share/doc/ddrescue/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ddrescue/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ddrescue/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/ddrescue/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ddrescue/README
/usr/share/info/ddrescue.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ddrescue.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ddrescuelog.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ddrescue on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.