How To Install afflib on CentOS 8

afflib is Library to support the Advanced Forensic Format

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install afflib on CentOS 8.

What is afflib

AFF\xae is an open and extensible file format designed to store disk images and associated metadata. afflib is library for support of the Advanced Forensic Format (AFF).

We can use yum or dnf to install afflib on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install afflib.

Install afflib on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install afflib using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install afflib

Install afflib on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install afflib using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install afflib

How To Uninstall afflib on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the afflib package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove afflib

afflib Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8/0c2aa15e9220d036689d4e7431483e100d3ebd
/usr/lib64/libafflib.so.0
/usr/lib64/libafflib.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/afflib
/usr/share/doc/afflib/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/afflib/BUGLIST.txt
/usr/share/doc/afflib/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/afflib/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/afflib/README
/usr/share/doc/afflib/announce_2.2.txt
/usr/share/licenses/afflib
/usr/share/licenses/afflib/COPYING

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install afflib on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.