How To Install forensics-samples-ext4 on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install forensics-samples-ext4 on Debian 12.
What is forensics-samples-ext4
forensics-samples-ext4 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 ext4 filesystem.
There are three methods to install forensics-samples-ext4 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-ext4 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-ext4 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install forensics-samples-ext4
Install forensics-samples-ext4 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install forensics-samples-ext4 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install forensics-samples-ext4
Install forensics-samples-ext4 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-ext4 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install forensics-samples-ext4
How To Uninstall forensics-samples-ext4 on Debian 12
To uninstall only the forensics-samples-ext4 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove forensics-samples-ext4
Uninstall forensics-samples-ext4 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall forensics-samples-ext4 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove forensics-samples-ext4
Remove forensics-samples-ext4 Configurations and Data
To remove forensics-samples-ext4 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge forensics-samples-ext4
Remove forensics-samples-ext4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove forensics-samples-ext4 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge forensics-samples-ext4
Dependencies
forensics-samples-ext4 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install forensics-samples-ext4 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
