How To Install libewf on Fedora 34

libewf is Library for the Expert Witness Compression Format (EWF) Library for the Expert Witness Compression Format (EWF)

Introduction

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

What is `libewf`

Libewf is a library for support of the Expert Witness Compression Format (EWF), it support both the SMART format (EWF-S01) and the EnCase format (EWF-E01). Libewf allows you to read and write media information within the EWF files. libewf 20140608 19.fc34 x86_64 567 k libewf-20140608-19.fc34.src.rpm fedora Library for the Expert Witness Compression Format (EWF) http LGPLv3+ Libewf is a library for support of the Expert Witness Compression Format (EWF), it support both the SMART format (EWF-S01) and the EnCase format (EWF-E01). Libewf allows you to read and write media information within the EWF files.

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

Install libewf 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 libewf using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libewf

Install libewf 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 libewf using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libewf

How To Uninstall libewf on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libewf

libewf Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/28
/usr/lib/.build-id/28/155e2edee1b4c7ea5729a6d76e5edea7b056b9
/usr/lib64/libewf.so.2
/usr/lib64/libewf.so.2.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libewf
/usr/share/doc/libewf/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libewf/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/libewf
/usr/share/licenses/libewf/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7/2bdced6be6f8bc41cdcd2e78b4d249a9b2feaf
/usr/lib/libewf.so.2
/usr/lib/libewf.so.2.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libewf
/usr/share/doc/libewf/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libewf/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/libewf
/usr/share/licenses/libewf/COPYING

References

[libewf website](http://sourceforge.net/projects/libewf/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/libewf/)

Summary

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