How To Install par2cmdline on Fedora 34

par2cmdline is PAR 2.0 compatible file verification and repair tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install par2cmdline on Fedora 34.

What is par2cmdline

par2cmdline is a program for creating and using PAR2 files to detect damage in data files and repair them if necessary. PAR2 files are usually published in binary newsgroups on Usenet; they apply the data-recovery capability concepts of RAID-like systems to the posting and recovery of multi-part archives.

We can use yum or dnf to install par2cmdline on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install par2cmdline.

Install par2cmdline 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 par2cmdline using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install par2cmdline

Install par2cmdline 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 par2cmdline using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install par2cmdline

How To Uninstall par2cmdline on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the par2cmdline package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove par2cmdline

par2cmdline Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/par2
/usr/bin/par2create
/usr/bin/par2repair
/usr/bin/par2verify
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/83
/usr/lib/.build-id/83/9d903f8c43a600cd0c84c433b0642009e55fcf
/usr/share/doc/par2cmdline
/usr/share/doc/par2cmdline/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/par2cmdline/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/par2cmdline/README
/usr/share/licenses/par2cmdline
/usr/share/licenses/par2cmdline/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/par2.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install par2cmdline on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.