How To Install ewftools on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install ewftools on Rocky Linux 8. ewftools is Utilities for the Expert Witness Compression Format (EWF)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ewftools on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ewftools.

Install ewftools on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install ewftools

Install ewftools on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove ewftools

ewftools Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/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/09
/usr/lib/.build-id/09/ead8693393972a8a58c2e896b51f3f8f555de8
/usr/lib/.build-id/0d
/usr/lib/.build-id/0d/4ae60ff00bb3f7cd455e2836052ffdf76e566d
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f/a56f4fe5593a044d6ff184d88db2b7acc76008
/usr/lib/.build-id/4d
/usr/lib/.build-id/4d/cf8af6ceea3e9d5d09e31cb4663bc5e74eb33a
/usr/lib/.build-id/92
/usr/lib/.build-id/92/f5011adbfe66541a87b9f12e425080feebb806
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f/391412258dc5e77f4b01a07c09e2e30ccc7d88
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb/5cc40e376cd11899ac7109e343ff0e40554214
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9/7eb6525ffe99436098018c33ae5f3d175d4578
/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 Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.