How To Install affxml on Fedora 34

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install afftools

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install afftools

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is affxml and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running Fedora 34. This guide was written specifically with a server running Fedora 34 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install affxml on Fedora 34. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install affxml on Fedora 34 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install affxml using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install afftools

Install affxml on Fedora 34 using yum

Because affxml is available in Fedora 34’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install affxml package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install afftools

How to upgrade (update) a single package affxml using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like affxml in this example you should use the following command:

yum update afftools

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade afftools

How to Upgrade affxml on Fedora 34 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update afftools

How To remove affxml from Fedora 34

To uninstall only the affxml package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove afftools

Extra info and code examples

The Advanced Forensic Format (AFF) is on-disk format for storing computer forensic information. Critical features of AFF include: - AFF allows you to store both computer forensic data and associated metadata in one or more files. - AFF allows files to be digital singed, to provide for chain-of-custody and long-term file integrity. - AFF allows for forensic disk images to stored encrypted and decrypted on-the-fly for processing. This allows disk images containing privacy sensitive material to be stored on the Internet. This package provides the AFF Toolkit, that is a set of programs for working with computer forensic information. Using these tools you can: * Interconvert disk images between a variety of formats, including: - raw or "dd"; - splitraw (in which a single image is split between mulitple files); - AFF format (in which the entire disk image is stored in a single file); - AFD format (in which a disk image is stored in mulitple AFF files stored in a single directory); - AFM format (in which an AFF file is used to annotate a raw file). * Compare disk images and report the data or metadata that is different. * Copy disk images from one location to another, with full verification of data, metadata, and the automatic generation of a chain-of-custody segment. * Find errors in an AFF file and fix them. * Print information about a file. * Print detailed statistics about a file * Generate a XML representation of a disk image's metadata (for example, acquisition time or the serial number of the acquisition device). * Produce a XML "diskprint" which allows a disk image to be rapidly fingerprinted without having the computer the SHA1 of the entire disk. The AFF Toolkit provides these executables: affcat, affcompare, affconvert, affcopy, affcrypto, affdiskprint, affinfo, affix, affrecover, affsegment, affsign, affstats, affuse, affverify and affxml.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install affxml using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the affxml from Fedora 34.

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