How to Install and Uninstall testdisk Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: April 30,2024

1. Install "testdisk" package

Please follow the steps below to install testdisk on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall testdisk on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: testdisk
Architecture: amd64
Version: 7.1-5
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Jean-Michel Kelbert
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1423
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.27), libext2fs2 (>= 1.41.0), libjpeg8 (>= 8c), libncursesw6 (>= 6), libntfs-3g883, libtinfo6 (>= 6), libuuid1 (>= 2.16), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), ntfs-3g
Filename: pool/universe/t/testdisk/testdisk_7.1-5_amd64.deb
Size: 362084
MD5sum: f058d5752a1c88305beba59502684a68
SHA1: ab08e9bdc09f988887eb1cad024db57cf65dd4fb
SHA256: ce6bf8307d9af558161fc4a9d3f16d45382d1599adcbcf7d1d17aca74f024c60
SHA512: 105344bb9c6cd042476b774e29758929a7dbc753592f6f2718ff725aea627654f7b1db74bb37560b6d9a0a3034418c0a8629740d15726ca3dfc1563fb9b3f4d4
Description-en: 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: cd07c9c9e3f2ae916bd657a269d45dd2