How To Install forensics-samples-tools on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install forensics-samples-tools on Kali Linux.
What is forensics-samples-tools
forensics-samples-tools 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 some tools (currently fsdeploy only).
There are three methods to install forensics-samples-tools 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 forensics-samples-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install forensics-samples-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install forensics-samples-toolsInstall forensics-samples-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install forensics-samples-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install forensics-samples-toolsInstall forensics-samples-tools 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install forensics-samples-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install forensics-samples-toolsHow To Uninstall forensics-samples-tools on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the forensics-samples-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove forensics-samples-toolsUninstall forensics-samples-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall forensics-samples-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove forensics-samples-toolsRemove forensics-samples-tools Configurations and Data
To remove forensics-samples-tools configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge forensics-samples-toolsRemove forensics-samples-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove forensics-samples-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge forensics-samples-toolsDependencies
forensics-samples-tools have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install forensics-samples-tools package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.