How to Install and Uninstall gddrescue Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 04,2024

1. Install "gddrescue" package

Please follow the instructions below to install gddrescue on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Learn how to uninstall gddrescue on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                gddrescue
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the gddrescue package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: gddrescue
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 356
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Michael Prokop
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.19-2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.9)
Filename: pool/universe/g/gddrescue/gddrescue_1.19-2_amd64.deb
Size: 99664
MD5sum: 4b51b807e2ad61bdbcd6fbc2448b817b
SHA1: a65f165cdb74dc405a93d5b65e91f5351c17cac9
SHA256: 9efcf1f12159950177044058ad11e5640d708db8fcbff20b0b28f8a385bcde7d
Description-en: GNU data recovery tool
The gddrescue tool copies data from one file or block device
(hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to rescue data
in case of read errors.
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gddrescue does not truncate the output file if not asked to.
So, every time you run it on the same output file, it tries to
fill in the gaps.
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The basic operation of gddrescue is fully automatic. That is,
you don't have to wait for an error, stop the program, read the
log, run it in reverse mode, etc. If you use the logfile
feature of gddrescue, the data is rescued very efficiently (only
the needed blocks are read). Also you can interrupt the rescue
at any time and resume it later at the same point.
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Automatic merging of backups: If you have two or more damaged
copies of a file, cdrom, etc, and run gddrescue on all of them,
one at a time, with the same output file, you will probably
obtain a complete and error-free file. This is so because the
probability of having damaged areas at the same places on
different input files is very low. Using the logfile, only the
needed blocks are read from the second and successive copies.
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The logfile is periodically saved to disc. So in case of a crash
you can resume the rescue with little recopying. Also, the same
logfile can be used for multiple commands that copy different
areas of the file, and for multiple recovery attempts over
different subsets.
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gddrescue aligns its I/O buffer to the sector size so that it
can be used to read from raw devices. For efficiency reasons,
also aligns it to the memory page size if page size is a
multiple of sector size.
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Please note that this is the GNU ddrescue version providing the
ddrescue executable. The package is named gddrescue because the
ddrescue version of Kurt Garloff used to have the ddrescue
package name already.
Description-md5: 95448f9ab04e163adf1889e7beca3fda
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu