How To Install forensics-samples-exfat on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install forensics-samples-exfat on Debian 12.
What is forensics-samples-exfat
forensics-samples-exfat is:
forensics-samples is a set of useful files to help to learn or test forensics tools and techniques. These files are examples of pictures, filesystems and other possible artifacts as memory dumps (not available yet).
forensics-samples is useful for students and CI tests. The main intent of this work is provide a standardized set of files to avoid time waste in some tasks when learning about forensics or testing tools.
There are some filesystem images available (currently: ext2, ext4, btrfs, NTFS, FAT2 (vfat) and exFAT). Inside each filesystem image, all files from “original-files” directory were copied and, after this, all directories ending with “2” in their names were deleted. Is possible use tools to analyse the files and their metadata or carvers to recover deleted files.
On Debian, forensics-samples also is useful to provide files to be used by other packages in CI tests (autopkgtest), making several source-packages smallest (e.g.: metacam, ext4magic, foremost, magicrescue, disktype, etc). All you need is use it as a dependency for your test in debian/tests/control file.
This package provides an image of an exFAT filesystem.
There are three methods to install forensics-samples-exfat on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install forensics-samples-exfat Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install forensics-samples-exfat using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install forensics-samples-exfat
Install forensics-samples-exfat Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install forensics-samples-exfat using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install forensics-samples-exfat
Install forensics-samples-exfat 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 forensics-samples-exfat using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install forensics-samples-exfat
How To Uninstall forensics-samples-exfat on Debian 12
To uninstall only the forensics-samples-exfat package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove forensics-samples-exfat
Uninstall forensics-samples-exfat And Its Dependencies
To uninstall forensics-samples-exfat and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove forensics-samples-exfat
Remove forensics-samples-exfat Configurations and Data
To remove forensics-samples-exfat configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge forensics-samples-exfat
Remove forensics-samples-exfat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove forensics-samples-exfat configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge forensics-samples-exfat
Dependencies
forensics-samples-exfat have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install forensics-samples-exfat package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
