How To Install grokevt-findlogs on CentOS 8

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 grokevt

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install grokevt

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

What is grokevt-findlogs and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 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 grokevt-findlogs on CentOS 8. 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 grokevt-findlogs on CentOS 8 using dnf

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

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install grokevt-findlogs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install grokevt

Install grokevt-findlogs on CentOS 8 using yum

Because grokevt-findlogs is available in CentOS 8’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 grokevt-findlogs package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install grokevt

How to upgrade (update) a single package grokevt-findlogs using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update grokevt

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade grokevt

How to Upgrade grokevt-findlogs on CentOS 8 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 grokevt

How To remove grokevt-findlogs from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the grokevt-findlogs package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove grokevt

Extra info and code examples

GrokEVT is a collection of scripts built for reading Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 event log files. Currently the scripts work together on one or more mounted Microsoft Windows partitions to extract all information needed (registry entries, message templates, and log files) to convert the logs to a human-readable format. This program is useful in forensics investigations.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install grokevt-findlogs using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the grokevt-findlogs from CentOS 8.

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