How To Install hivex on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hivex on AlmaLinux 8.
What is hivex
Hive files are the undocumented binary files that Windows uses to store the Windows Registry on disk. Hivex is a library that can read and write to these files. ‘hivexsh’ is a shell you can use to interactively navigate a hive binary file. ‘hivexregedit’ (in perl-hivex) lets you export and merge to the textual regedit format. ‘hivexml’ can be used to convert a hive file to a more useful XML format. In order to get access to the hive files themselves, you can copy them from a Windows machine. They are usually found in %systemroot%\system32\config. For virtual machines we recommend using libguestfs or guestfish to copy out these files. libguestfs also provides a useful high-level tool called ‘virt-win-reg’ (based on hivex technology) which can be used to query specific registry keys in an existing Windows VM. For OCaml bindings, see ‘ocaml-hivex-devel’. For Perl bindings, see ‘perl-hivex’. For Python 3 bindings, see ‘python3-hivex’. For Ruby bindings, see ‘ruby-hivex’.
We can use yum or dnf to install hivex on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hivex.
Install hivex on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install hivex using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install hivex
Install hivex on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install hivex using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install hivex
How To Uninstall hivex on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the hivex package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove hivex
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hivex on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
