How To Install autopsy on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install autopsy on Kali Linux.

What is autopsy

autopsy is:

The Autopsy Forensic Browser is a graphical interface to the command line digital forensic analysis tools in The Sleuth Kit. Together, The Sleuth Kit and Autopsy provide many of the same features as commercial digital forensics tools for the analysis of Windows and UNIX file systems (NTFS, FAT, FFS, EXT2FS, and EXT3FS).

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

Install autopsy Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install autopsy

Install autopsy Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install autopsy using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install autopsy

Install autopsy Using aptitude

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

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install autopsy

How To Uninstall autopsy on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the autopsy package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove autopsy

Uninstall autopsy And Its Dependencies

To uninstall autopsy and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove autopsy

Remove autopsy Configurations and Data

To remove autopsy configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge autopsy

Remove autopsy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge autopsy

Dependencies

autopsy have the following dependencies:

• binutils
• perl
• sleuthkit

References

• autopsy website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install autopsy package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.