8.10 Can't access hardly anything

[nicholas.alipaz]

I have tried:

sudo apt-get install photorec

But it doesn't seem to find it in the repositories. Which repository is it in exactly?

[bodhi.zazen]

I believe it is in universe.

Personally I suggest you use synaptic, enable the repositories, then use the package search for photorec or testdisk.

[nicholas.alipaz]

Using the live cd and enabling the universe repository I still don't find either of the programs in the list...

Does it have something to do with me being on the live cd? When I hit reload in synaptic it downloads 48 files. Should it be getting more with the universe repository enabled? If so, then why won't the live cd grab them.

[bodhi.zazen]

It appears photorec is included in testdisk

sudo apt-get install testdisk

[nicholas.alipaz]

Thanks, I got it installed and am running the program now. It looks like it will take a few hours to complete.

I set it up to recover to my external hd, so it won't overwrite any info it will try to recover. It has already recovered about 5 files, nothing I really recognize yet but I am waiting on it to start recovering jpg/jpegs. There are a number of photos I need to recover.

Thanks again and I will likely start using clonezilla as suggested.