How To Install wipe on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install wipe in Fedora 36. wipe is Secure file erasing tool

Introduction

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

What is `wipe`

Wipe is a little command for securely erasing files from magnetic media.

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

Install wipe 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 wipe using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wipe

Install wipe 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 wipe using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wipe

How To Uninstall wipe on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove wipe

wipe Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/wipe
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/56
/usr/lib/.build-id/56/86e5bd94f3e522fd22bb4eed16e5de264a2860
/usr/share/doc/wipe
/usr/share/doc/wipe/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/wipe/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/wipe/GPL
/usr/share/doc/wipe/README
/usr/share/doc/wipe/wipefd0
/usr/share/doc/wipe/wswap.pl
/usr/share/man/man1/wipe.1.gz
/usr/share/man/tr/man1/wipe.1.gz

References

wipe website

Summary

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