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¶

Download¶

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

unzip swidGenerator-master.zip

Required Packages 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

Required Packages under Fedora or RedHat Enterprise Linux¶

Installation¶

Change into the unpacked archive and execute the command

sudo python setup.py install

and the swid_generator function usually installed in /usr/local/bin becomes available.

Use¶