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

Last updated: May 03,2024

1. Install "testdisk" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install testdisk on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "testdisk" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall testdisk on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: testdisk
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Installed-Size: 1212
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Jean-Michel Kelbert
Architecture: amd64
Version: 7.0-1
Depends: e2fslibs (>= 1.41.0), libc6 (>= 2.14), libjpeg8 (>= 8c), libncursesw5 (>= 6), libntfs-3g861, libtinfo5 (>= 6), libuuid1 (>= 2.16), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), ntfs-3g
Filename: pool/universe/t/testdisk/testdisk_7.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 324112
MD5sum: 11b36179cd12046908304df12fcb26ff
SHA1: 765c89ee4081c25fb596049e3c7c6b2b3ece0c3a
SHA256: 82608d1a7ad57bca62a9504ad1d3716e6267a7ce2f5be1966252b3f5553d7a62
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
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu