How To Install gpart on Fedora 34

gpart is A program for recovering corrupt partition tables

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gpart on Fedora 34.

What is gpart

Gpart is a small tool which tries to guess what partitions are on a PC type harddisk in case the primary partition table was damaged.

We can use yum or dnf to install gpart on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gpart.

Install gpart on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install gpart

Install gpart on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install gpart

How To Uninstall gpart on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove gpart

gpart Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1b
/usr/lib/.build-id/1b/87c2be059b46c04ddff324e54032d9338b2cdc
/usr/sbin/gpart
/usr/share/doc/gpart
/usr/share/doc/gpart/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/gpart/Changes
/usr/share/doc/gpart/README.md
/usr/share/man/man8/gpart.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gpart on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.