How To Install fatcat on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install fatcat in Fedora 36. fatcat is FAT filesystems explore, extract, repair, and forensic tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fatcat on Fedora 36.

What is fatcat

fatcat is a tool is designed to manipulate FAT filesystems, in order to explore, extract, repair, recover and forensic them. It currently supports FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32.

We can use yum or dnf to install fatcat on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fatcat.

Install fatcat on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install fatcat

Install fatcat on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install fatcat

How To Uninstall fatcat on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove fatcat

fatcat Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/fatcat
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce
/usr/lib/.build-id/ce/f7ed629597cae840a45447d9ff025c23f593d6
/usr/share/doc/fatcat
/usr/share/doc/fatcat/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/fatcat
/usr/share/licenses/fatcat/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/fatcat.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fatcat on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).