How To Install qphotorec on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qphotorec
on Fedora 34.
What is qphotorec
QPhotoRec is a Qt version of PhotoRec. It is a signature based file recovery utility. It handles more than 440 file formats including JPG, MSOffice, OpenOffice documents.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install qphotorec
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qphotorec.
Install qphotorec 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 qphotorec
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install qphotorec
Install qphotorec 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 qphotorec
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install qphotorec
How To Uninstall qphotorec on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the qphotorec
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove qphotorec
qphotorec Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/qphotorec
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac/6adfd8aaf3390f35866058ea6320d68fe5dacc
/usr/share/applications/qphotorec.desktop
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/qphotorec.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/qphotorec.svg
/usr/share/man/man8/qphotorec.8.gz
/usr/share/man/zh_CN/man8/qphotorec.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qphotorec
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.