How To Install wipe on Fedora 34

wipe is Secure file erasing tool

Introduction

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

What is wipe

Wipe is a little command for securely erasing files from magnetic media.

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

Install wipe 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 wipe using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wipe

Install wipe 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 wipe using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wipe

How To Uninstall wipe on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove wipe

wipe Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/wipe
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/77
/usr/lib/.build-id/77/983e0a114286ea6abc6c064637abf42dcce92f
/usr/share/doc/wipe
/usr/share/doc/wipe/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/wipe/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/wipe/GPL
/usr/share/doc/wipe/README
/usr/share/doc/wipe/wipefd0
/usr/share/doc/wipe/wswap.pl
/usr/share/man/man1/wipe.1.gz
/usr/share/man/tr/man1/wipe.1.gz

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Summary

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