How To Install forensics-samples-ntfs on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install forensics-samples-ntfs
on Debian 11.
What is forensics-samples-ntfs
forensics-samples-ntfs 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 NTFS filesystem.
There are three methods to install forensics-samples-ntfs
on Debian 11. 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-ntfs 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-ntfs
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install forensics-samples-ntfs
Install forensics-samples-ntfs Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install forensics-samples-ntfs
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install forensics-samples-ntfs
Install forensics-samples-ntfs 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-ntfs
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install forensics-samples-ntfs
How To Uninstall forensics-samples-ntfs on Debian 11
To uninstall only the forensics-samples-ntfs
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove forensics-samples-ntfs
Uninstall forensics-samples-ntfs And Its Dependencies
To uninstall forensics-samples-ntfs
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove forensics-samples-ntfs
Remove forensics-samples-ntfs Configurations and Data
To remove forensics-samples-ntfs
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge forensics-samples-ntfs
Remove forensics-samples-ntfs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove forensics-samples-ntfs
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge forensics-samples-ntfs
Dependencies
forensics-samples-ntfs have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install forensics-samples-ntfs
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.