How to Install and Uninstall testdisk Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "testdisk" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install testdisk on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                testdisk
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "testdisk" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall testdisk on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                testdisk
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the testdisk package on Kali Linux

Package: testdisk
Version: 7.1-5+nmu1
Installed-Size: 1413
Maintainer: Jean-Michel Kelbert
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libext2fs2 (>= 1.41.0), libjpeg62-turbo (>= 1.3.1), libncursesw6 (>= 6), libntfs-3g89, libtinfo6 (>= 6), libuuid1 (>= 2.16), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), ntfs-3g
Size: 414868
SHA256: 38ad1c0ce8087688e0d8e34d55e58de55ced2402ef6467af661427f4c9f6a949
SHA1: d9555e5a958efe2a36b5eee4cffa78a1932ad1a3
MD5sum: 934a8f5befd16924d97736b74bf73cab
Description: Partition scanner and disk recovery tool, and PhotoRec file recovery tool
TestDisk checks the partition and boot sectors of your disks.
It is very useful in forensics, recovering lost partitions.
It works with :
* DOS/Windows FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32
* NTFS ( Windows NT/2K/XP )
* Linux Ext2 and Ext3
* BeFS ( BeOS )
* BSD disklabel ( FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD )
* CramFS (Compressed File System)
* HFS and HFS+, Hierarchical File System
* JFS, IBM's Journaled File System
* Linux Raid
* Linux Swap (versions 1 and 2)
* LVM and LVM2, Linux Logical Volume Manager
* Netware NSS
* ReiserFS 3.5 and 3.6
* Sun Solaris i386 disklabel
* UFS and UFS2 (Sun/BSD/...)
* XFS, SGI's Journaled File System
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PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover
lost pictures from digital camera memory or even Hard Disks.
It has been extended to search also for non audio/video headers.
It searches for following files and is able to undelete them:
* Sun/NeXT audio data (.au)
* RIFF audio/video (.avi/.wav)
* BMP bitmap (.bmp)
* bzip2 compressed data (.bz2)
* Source code written in C (.c)
* Canon Raw picture (.crw)
* Canon catalog (.ctg)
* FAT subdirectory
* Microsoft Office Document (.doc)
* Nikon dsc (.dsc)
* HTML page (.html)
* JPEG picture (.jpg)
* MOV video (.mov)
* MP3 audio (MPEG ADTS, layer III, v1) (.mp3)
* Moving Picture Experts Group video (.mpg)
* Minolta Raw picture (.mrw)
* Olympus Raw Format picture (.orf)
* Portable Document Format (.pdf)
* Perl script (.pl)
* Portable Network Graphics (.png)
* Raw Fujifilm picture (.raf)
* Contax picture (.raw)
* Rollei picture (.rdc)
* Rich Text Format (.rtf)
* Shell script (.sh)
* Tar archive (.tar )
* Tag Image File Format (.tiff)
* Microsoft ASF (.wma)
* Sigma/Foveon X3 raw picture (.x3f)
* zip archive (.zip)
Description-md5:
Tag: admin::boot, admin::filesystem, admin::forensics, admin::recovery,
interface::commandline, interface::text-mode, role::program,
scope::utility, uitoolkit::ncurses, use::checking
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/t/testdisk/testdisk_7.1-5+nmu1_amd64.deb