How To Install recoverjpeg on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install recoverjpeg on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is recoverjpeg
recoverjpeg is:
recoverjpeg tries to recover JFIF (JPEG) pictures and MOV movies from a peripheral. This may be useful if you mistakenly overwrite a partition or if a device such as a digital camera memory card is bogus.
This package provides these executables: recoverjpeg, recovermov, remove-duplicates and sort-pictures. The remove-duplicates is useful to remove duplicate files found. sort-pictures can be used to sort pictures according to exif date.
This package acts as a carver (data carving) and is useful in forensics investigations.
There are three methods to install recoverjpeg 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 recoverjpeg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install recoverjpeg using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install recoverjpeg
Install recoverjpeg Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install recoverjpeg using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install recoverjpeg
Install recoverjpeg 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 recoverjpeg using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install recoverjpeg
How To Uninstall recoverjpeg on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the recoverjpeg package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove recoverjpeg
Uninstall recoverjpeg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall recoverjpeg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove recoverjpeg
Remove recoverjpeg Configurations and Data
To remove recoverjpeg configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge recoverjpeg
Remove recoverjpeg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove recoverjpeg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge recoverjpeg
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install recoverjpeg package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
