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h1. The swidGenerator Tool

"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.

h2. Installation

h3. Download

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

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unzip swidGenerator-master.zip

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h3. Required Packages under Debian or Ubuntu

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. Required Packages under Fedora or RedHat Enterprise Linux

h3. Installation

Change into the unpacked archive and execute the command

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sudo python setup.py install

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

h2. Use