How To Install foremost on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install foremost in Fedora 36. foremost is Recover files by “carving” them from a raw disk

Introduction

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

What is `foremost`

Foremost recovers files files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures. This process is commonly referred to as data carving. Foremost can work on a raw disk drive or image file generated by dd. The headers and footers can be specified by a configuration file or you can use command line switches to specify built-in file types. These built-in types look at the data structures of a given file format allowing for a more reliable and faster recovery.

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

Install foremost 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 foremost using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install foremost

Install foremost 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 foremost using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install foremost

How To Uninstall foremost on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove foremost

foremost Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/foremost.conf
/usr/bin/foremost
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b/1a7c90b1e1d524d0a07b3c27a2d81818647d25
/usr/share/doc/foremost
/usr/share/doc/foremost/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/foremost/README
/usr/share/man/man8/foremost.8.gz

References

foremost website

Summary

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