How To Install safecopy on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install safecopy in Fedora 36. safecopy is Safe copying of files and partitions

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/).