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Andreas Steffen, 10.04.2014 14:40

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h1. The swidGenerator Tool
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"swidGenerator":https://github.com/tnc-ba/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.
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h2. Installation
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Next download the latest swidGenerator tarball from https://github.com/tnc-ba/swidGenerator/archive/master.zip and unpack it with the command
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unzip master.zip
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which will create a 
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h3. Installation under Debian or Ubuntu
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Make sure that the *python* and *python-setuptools* are present on your system. Otherwise install them with
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sudo apt-get install python python-setuptools
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h3. Installation under Fedora or RedHat Enterprise Linux
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h2. Use