How To Install nwipe on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nwipe on CentOS 8.
What is nwipe
The nwipe is a command that will securely erase disks using a variety of recognized methods. It is a fork of the dwipe command used by Darik’s Boot and Nuke (dban). Nwipe was created out of need to run the DBAN dwipe command outside of DBAN. This allows it to use any host distribution which gives better hardware support. It is essentially the same as dwipe, with a few changes - pthreads is used instead of fork - The parted library is used to detect drives - The code is designed to be compiled with gcc - Increased number of wipe methods - Smartmontools is used to provide USB serial # - DmiDecode is used to provide host info to nwipes log
We can use yum or dnf to install nwipe on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nwipe.
Install nwipe 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 nwipe using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nwipe
Install nwipe 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 nwipe using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nwipe
How To Uninstall nwipe on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the nwipe package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nwipe
nwipe Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/nwipe
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab/5d439d6ef16d461ab122d6b4fdbd4aaeea2821
/usr/share/doc/nwipe
/usr/share/doc/nwipe/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/nwipe/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/nwipe
/usr/share/licenses/nwipe/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/nwipe.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nwipe on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.