How To Install ewftools on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install ewftools on CentOS 7. ewftools is Utilities for the Expert Witness Compression Format (EWF)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ewftools on CentOS 7.

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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ewftools.

Install ewftools on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install ewftools

Install ewftools on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install ewftools

How To Uninstall ewftools on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove ewftools

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ewftools on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.