How To Install recoverdm on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install recoverdm on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is recoverdm
recoverdm is:
recoverdm recover disks with bad sectors. You can recover files as well complete devices. In case it finds sectors which simply cannot be recovered, it writes an empty sector to the output file and continues.
When recovering a CD or a DVD and the program cannot read the sector in “normal mode”, then the program will try to read the sector in “RAW mode” (without error-checking etc.). This toolkit also has a utility called ‘mergebad’ which merges multiple images into one.
This package is useful in forensics investigations.
There are three methods to install recoverdm on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install recoverdm Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install recoverdm using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install recoverdm
Install recoverdm Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install recoverdm using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install recoverdm
Install recoverdm Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install recoverdm using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install recoverdm
How To Uninstall recoverdm on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the recoverdm package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove recoverdm
Uninstall recoverdm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall recoverdm and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove recoverdm
Remove recoverdm Configurations and Data
To remove recoverdm configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge recoverdm
Remove recoverdm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove recoverdm configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge recoverdm
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install recoverdm package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
