How To Install forensics-samples-multiple on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install forensics-samples-multiple
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is forensics-samples-multiple
forensics-samples-multiple 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 called fs.multiple. This disk image has 4 partitions with the following filesystems: btrfs, ext4, exFAT and NTFS.
There are three methods to install forensics-samples-multiple
on Ubuntu 22.04. 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-multiple 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-multiple
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install forensics-samples-multiple
Install forensics-samples-multiple Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install forensics-samples-multiple
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install forensics-samples-multiple
Install forensics-samples-multiple 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install forensics-samples-multiple
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install forensics-samples-multiple
How To Uninstall forensics-samples-multiple on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the forensics-samples-multiple
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove forensics-samples-multiple
Uninstall forensics-samples-multiple And Its Dependencies
To uninstall forensics-samples-multiple
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove forensics-samples-multiple
Remove forensics-samples-multiple Configurations and Data
To remove forensics-samples-multiple
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge forensics-samples-multiple
Remove forensics-samples-multiple configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove forensics-samples-multiple
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge forensics-samples-multiple
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install forensics-samples-multiple
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.