Information about the package, hivex, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The hivex package is designed for, Read and write Windows Registry binary hive files.
Package Name:
hivex
Summary:
Read and write Windows Registry binary hive files
Description:
Hive files are undocumented binary files that Windows uses to store the Windows Registry on the disk. Hivex is a library that can read and write to these files. 'hivexsh' is a shell you can use to interactively navigate a hive binary file. 'hivexregedit' lets you export and merge to the textual regedit format. 'hivexml' can be used to convert a hive file to a more useful XML format. In order to get access to the hive files themselves, you can copy them from a Windows machine. They are usually found in %systemroot%\system32\config. For virtual machines we recommend using libguestfs or guestfish to copy out these files. libguestfs also provides a useful high-level tool called 'virt-win-reg' (based on hivex technology) which can be used to query specific registry keys in an existing Windows VM. For OCaml bindings, see 'ocaml-hivex-devel'. For Perl bindings, see 'perl-hivex'. For Python bindings, see 'python-hivex'.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.3.3
Release:
4.3.el6
Size:
90 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2
Control the hivex package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install hivex
This command will install hivex on the server.
yum remove hivex
This command will un-install hivex on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove hivex, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove hivex
This command will un-install hivex on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove hivex when using the -y flag.
yum update hivex
This command will update hivex to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove hivex, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update hivex
This command will update hivex to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove hivex when using the -y flag.
yum info hivex
This command will show you core information about the hivex package.
yum deplist hivex
This command will show you the dependencies for hivex. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update hivex
This command will check if there is an update waiting on hivex. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.