How To Install safecopy on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install safecopy
on Fedora 36.
What is safecopy
safecopy is a data recovery tool which tries to extract as much data as possible from a problematic (i.e. damaged sectors) source - like floppy drives, harddisk partitions, CDs, tape devices, …, where other tools like dd would fail doe to I/O errors.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install safecopy
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install safecopy.
Install safecopy 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 safecopy
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install safecopy
Install safecopy 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 safecopy
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install safecopy
How To Uninstall safecopy on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the safecopy
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove safecopy
safecopy Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/safecopy
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/56
/usr/lib/.build-id/56/17e976c1ea98bd2cb40d7e8d8cfc0c1545e1da
/usr/share/doc/safecopy
/usr/share/doc/safecopy/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/safecopy/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/safecopy/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/safecopy/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/safecopy/README
/usr/share/man/man1/safecopy.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install safecopy
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).