How To Install ewftools on Fedora 34

ewftools is Utilities for the Expert Witness Compression Format (EWF)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ewftools on Fedora 34.

What is ewftools

Several tools for reading and writing EWF files. It contains tools to acquire, verify and export EWF files.

We can use yum or dnf to install ewftools on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ewftools.

Install ewftools on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install ewftools

Install ewftools on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install ewftools

How To Uninstall ewftools on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove ewftools

ewftools Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/ewfacquire
/usr/bin/ewfacquirestream
/usr/bin/ewfdebug
/usr/bin/ewfexport
/usr/bin/ewfinfo
/usr/bin/ewfmount
/usr/bin/ewfrecover
/usr/bin/ewfverify
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f/029afb9574cd8cfc90596a1d99474c030993a3
/usr/lib/.build-id/15
/usr/lib/.build-id/15/c55850c922ba30b8d1e7909861917f4565d5d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/32
/usr/lib/.build-id/32/29e6ac7a9ae16075b6f0e9ef87646943a10a2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/61
/usr/lib/.build-id/61/6d42ff86da1aa64175248645b15ab87950547e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e/222b14922740a25b70912c1d8c3a8f98368c69
/usr/lib/.build-id/96
/usr/lib/.build-id/96/7e794a103121c3430f016fcc535416a1ef1aef
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b/df038fadfb6ccb65b923c358a5fe577ea89009
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca/f68e7f8c5eb016ffa2eda26a96a007a89588c8
/usr/share/man/man1/ewfacquire.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ewfacquirestream.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ewfexport.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ewfinfo.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ewfmount.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ewfrecover.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ewfverify.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ewftools on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.