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Andreas Steffen, 10.04.2014 14:40


The swidGenerator Tool

swidGenerator is an open source python-based tool written by the HSR students Danilo Bargen, Christian Fässler and Jonas Furrer which is able to generate ISO/IEC 1977-2-2014 Software Identification (SWID) tags for all installed software packages installed by the Linux dpkg and yum packet managers.

Installation

Next download the latest swidGenerator tarball from https://github.com/tnc-ba/swidGenerator/archive/master.zip and unpack it with the command

unzip master.zip

which will create a

Installation under Debian or Ubuntu

Make sure that the python and python-setuptools are present on your system. Otherwise install them with

sudo apt-get install python python-setuptools

Installation under Fedora or RedHat Enterprise Linux

Use