How To Install libewf-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libewf-dbg
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libewf-dbg
libewf-dbg is:
Libewf is a library with support for reading and writing the Expert Witness Compression Format (EWF). This library allows you to read media information of EWF files in the SMART (EWF-S01) format and the EnCase (EWF-E01) format. It supports files created by EnCase 1 to 6, linen and FTK Imager. The libewf is useful for forensics investigations.
This package contains the debugging symbols.
There are three methods to install libewf-dbg
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libewf-dbg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libewf-dbg
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libewf-dbg
Install libewf-dbg Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libewf-dbg
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libewf-dbg
Install libewf-dbg 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 libewf-dbg
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libewf-dbg
How To Uninstall libewf-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libewf-dbg
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libewf-dbg
Uninstall libewf-dbg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libewf-dbg
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libewf-dbg
Remove libewf-dbg Configurations and Data
To remove libewf-dbg
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libewf-dbg
Remove libewf-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libewf-dbg
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libewf-dbg
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libewf-dbg
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.