How To Install nwipe on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nwipe on Fedora 34.
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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nwipe.
Install nwipe 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 nwipe using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nwipe
Install nwipe 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 nwipe using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nwipe
How To Uninstall nwipe on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the nwipe package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nwipe
nwipe Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/nwipe
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f/c994b7f13f1fb80790b6b6d70e8d4baa8a6aee
/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
/usr/bin/nwipe
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1/2f5a125687d6b9b3f2964f5306d6c64580b440
/usr/share/doc/nwipe
/usr/share/doc/nwipe/README
/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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.