How To Install forensics-samples-vfat on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install forensics-samples-vfat on Debian 12.
What is forensics-samples-vfat
forensics-samples-vfat 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 a FAT32 with virtual table filesystem.
There are three methods to install forensics-samples-vfat 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-vfat 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-vfat using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install forensics-samples-vfat
Install forensics-samples-vfat Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install forensics-samples-vfat using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install forensics-samples-vfat
Install forensics-samples-vfat 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-vfat using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install forensics-samples-vfat
How To Uninstall forensics-samples-vfat on Debian 12
To uninstall only the forensics-samples-vfat package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove forensics-samples-vfat
Uninstall forensics-samples-vfat And Its Dependencies
To uninstall forensics-samples-vfat and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove forensics-samples-vfat
Remove forensics-samples-vfat Configurations and Data
To remove forensics-samples-vfat configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge forensics-samples-vfat
Remove forensics-samples-vfat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove forensics-samples-vfat configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge forensics-samples-vfat
Dependencies
forensics-samples-vfat have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install forensics-samples-vfat package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
