How To Install volatility-tools on Debian 10

Learn how to install volatility-tools on Debian 10 with this tutorial. volatility-tools is generate profiles to Volatility Framework

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install volatility-tools on Debian 10.

What is volatility-tools

volatility-tools is:

The Volatility Framework is a completely open collection of tools for the extraction of digital artifacts from volatile memory (RAM) samples. It is useful in forensics analysis.

This package provides the code used to generate Linux and MAC profiles to Volatility.

There are three methods to install volatility-tools on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install volatility-tools Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install volatility-tools using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install volatility-tools

Install volatility-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install volatility-tools using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install volatility-tools

Install volatility-tools Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install volatility-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install volatility-tools

How To Uninstall volatility-tools on Debian 10

To uninstall only the volatility-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove volatility-tools

Uninstall volatility-tools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall volatility-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove volatility-tools

Remove volatility-tools Configurations and Data

To remove volatility-tools configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge volatility-tools

Remove volatility-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove volatility-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge volatility-tools

Dependencies

volatility-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install volatility-tools package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.