How To Install sort-pictures on Ubuntu 22.04

One-liner install command

For those in a hurry, here's a one-line installation command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt -y install recoverjpeg

But if you are interested in the detailed steps with descriptions, the following information is for you.

What is sort-pictures and what are the ways to install it?

Before beginning this tutorial, you will need access to a server or computer running Ubuntu 22.04. This guide was written specifically with a server running Ubuntu 22.04 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install sort-pictures on Ubuntu 22.04. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install sort-pictures using apt-get

First, update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt-get database, You can install sort-pictures using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install recoverjpeg

Install sort-pictures using apt

Because sort-pictures is available in Ubuntu 22.04’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the apt packaging system.

To begin, update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, You can install sort-pictures using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install recoverjpeg

Install sort-pictures using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu 22.04. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating aptitude database, You can install sort-pictures by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install recoverjpeg

How to upgrade (update) a single package sort-pictures using apt-get?

First, you will need to update packages index. Run update command as usual:

sudo apt-get update

Next, to upgrade only the sort-pictures, e.g. single package, you should use the following format with the apt-get command/apt command:

sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install recoverjpeg

Note that this command will not install any new packages! If you wish to install the package if it doesn't exist you may leave out --only-upgrade part.

sudo apt-get install recoverjpeg

How To Uninstall sort-pictures from Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the sort-pictures package you can execute the following command:

sudo apt-get remove recoverjpeg

Uninstall sort-pictures and all its dependencies

To uninstall sort-pictures and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, you can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove recoverjpeg

Remove sort-pictures with all configurations and data

To remove sort-pictures configuration and data from your system you can run the following purge command:

sudo apt-get -y purge recoverjpeg

Remove sort-pictures completely (configurations, data and all of its dependencies)

And lastly, you can run the next command to remove absolutely everything related to sort-pictures package, e.g.: configurations, data and all of its dependencies. Just use this command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge recoverjpeg

Extra info and code examples

recoverjpeg tries to recover JFIF (JPEG) pictures and MOV movies from a peripheral. This may be useful if you mistakenly overwrite a partition or if a device such as a digital camera memory card is bogus. This package provides these executables: recoverjpeg, recovermov, remove-duplicates and sort-pictures. The remove-duplicates is useful to remove duplicate files found. sort-pictures can be used to sort pictures according to exif date. This package acts as a carver (data carving) and is useful in forensics investigations.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install sort-pictures using apt, apt-get and aptitude tools. Also, we showed how to update as a single package and different ways to uninstall the sort-pictures from Ubuntu 22.04.

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