Cannot launch TestDisk

[mackissack]

I am brand new at Linux and there are still lots of things I have to learn.
And, therefore, I prefer to ask.
(A friend of mine once said there were more dumb people than persons who ask.)

Well, following suggestion from devils casper in a previous thread I installed TestDisk in my Fedora 12 system through the add/remove software tool.
Now, I do not see how to launch the program.
There is no call in any of the applications menus.

I also searched along the disk.
I found files and folders at different locations
Some documentations at
/usr/share/doc/ and at
/usr/share/doc/testdisk-doc-6.11/doc
and some locked folders at /var/yum/yumdb/t

I simply do not know how to launch the program.
Any suggestion?

[MikeTbob]

Hello and Welcome
I think Testdisk is a command line program, it doesn't use a GUI like most programs do and furthermore, Testdisk is generally meant to be used on unmounted filesystems, so launching it from the command line of a running OS will work, it isn't a good idea. I'd get partedmagic and run it from USB drive or a LiveCD.
News

[oz]

I agree with MikeTbob that you should consider running TestDisk from a liveCD such as Parted Magic. You can find the documentation for using it here:

TestDisk - CGSecurity

[mackissack]

Thank you for you welcome, MikeTbob.
On the other hand, ozar, I apologize myself for not reading thoroughly.

Yes, at the url you told me there is the following:

Precompiled binaries
The following instructions will download the archive and run TestDisk or PhotoRec.

wget testdisk-6.7.linuxstatic.tar.bz2
tar xjf testdisk-6.7.linuxstatic.tar.bz2
cd testdisk-6.7/linux

TestDisk and PhotoRec must be run as root:
Using sudo: sudo ./testdisk_static, sudo ./photorec_static
Using su: su -c ./testdisk_static, su -c ./photorec_static
Disk Geometry
You may have to use the Geometry menu to enter the correct disk geometry.

So, I'll try.