How To Install lziprecover on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lziprecover on CentOS 7.
What is lziprecover
Lziprecover is a data recovery tool and decompressor for files in the lzip compressed data format (.lz) able to repair slightly damaged files, recover badly damaged files from two or more copies, extract undamaged members from multi-member files, decompress files and test integrity of files. Lziprecover is able to recover or decompress files produced by any of the compressors in the lzip family; lzip, plzip, minilzip/lzlib, clzip and pdlzip. This recovery capability contributes to make the lzip format one of the best options for long-term data archiving.
We can use yum or dnf to install lziprecover on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lziprecover.
Install lziprecover on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install lziprecover using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install lziprecover
Install lziprecover on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install lziprecover using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install lziprecover
How To Uninstall lziprecover on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the lziprecover package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove lziprecover
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lziprecover on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.