How To Install qphotorec on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install qphotorec in Fedora 36. qphotorec is Signature based file carver. Recover lost files

Introduction

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

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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qphotorec.

Install qphotorec 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 qphotorec using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qphotorec

Install qphotorec 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 qphotorec using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qphotorec

How To Uninstall qphotorec on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove qphotorec

qphotorec Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/qphotorec
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3/ad9ce81f8e69be93cd58adca286b56b3710475
/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

qphotorec website

Summary

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