How To Install testdisk on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install testdisk on CentOS 7.
What is testdisk
Tool to check and undelete partition. Works with FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, ext2, ext3, ext4, btrfs, BeFS, CramFS, HFS, JFS, Linux Raid, Linux Swap, LVM, LVM2, NSS, ReiserFS, UFS, XFS. PhotoRec is a signature based file recovery utility. It handles more than 440 file formats including JPG, MSOffice, OpenOffice documents.
We can use yum or dnf to install testdisk on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install testdisk.
Install testdisk on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install testdisk using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install testdisk
Install testdisk 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 testdisk using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install testdisk
How To Uninstall testdisk on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the testdisk package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove testdisk
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install testdisk on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
