Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install afflib on CentOS 8.
What is afflib
AFFxae is an open and extensible file format designed to store disk images and associated metadata. afflib is library for support of the Advanced Forensic Format (AFF).
We can use yum or dnf to install afflib on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install afflib.
Install afflib on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install afflib using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install afflib
Install afflib on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install afflib using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install afflib
How To Uninstall afflib on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the afflib package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove afflib
afflib Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8/0c2aa15e9220d036689d4e7431483e100d3ebd
/usr/lib64/libafflib.so.0
/usr/lib64/libafflib.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/afflib
/usr/share/doc/afflib/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/afflib/BUGLIST.txt
/usr/share/doc/afflib/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/afflib/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/afflib/README
/usr/share/doc/afflib/announce_2.2.txt
/usr/share/licenses/afflib
/usr/share/licenses/afflib/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install afflib on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
