• Help installing/running testdisk on Ubuntu 10.04
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I'm trying to install testdisk/photorec on ubuntu netbook 10.04, without success. I'm booted on a liveusb of ubuntu, since my windows drive got fucked up. Here's exactly what I do: I go here: [url]http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download[/url] I click the big green "Testdisk 6.13 free download" button. (For linux) I save the bzip file, and exctract it using the default ubuntu archive manager (Forget the name) I open the folder that is created, to find 3 executable files along with a bunch of other files. Nothing happens when I double click on any of them. Edited: I googled my problem only to find some website saying I had to open terminal and type some commands or some shit, but that didn't do anything either.
Looks like it's a command line utility. You'll need to run it from a terminal. It's also probably going to need root privileges, considering its nature.
Thanks for replying, but I just figured it out. I dragged and dropped it into the terminal window.
In general with linux, you install stuff from either a) a package manager (like synaptic in ubuntu) or b) through the terminal. For ubuntu the terminal command is [code]sudo apt-get install <program-name-here>[/code] You don't download stuff from the web unless you actually know what you're doing :) Glad you got it sorted :D
I've looked for 2 hours and it's a simple drag a drop i love you so much!
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