How To Install libtsk-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtsk-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libtsk-dev
libtsk-dev is:
The Sleuth Kit, also known as TSK, is a collection of UNIX-based command line file and volume system forensic analysis tools. The filesystem tools allow you to examine filesystems of a suspect computer in a non-intrusive fashion. Because the tools do not rely on the operating system to process the filesystems, deleted and hidden content is shown.
The volume system (media management) tools allow you to examine the layout of disks and other media. You can also recover deleted files, get information stored in slack spaces, examine filesystems journal, see partitions layout on disks or images etc. But is very important clarify that the TSK acts over the current filesystem only.
The Sleuth Kit supports DOS partitions, BSD partitions (disk labels), Mac partitions, Sun slices (Volume Table of Contents), and GPT disks. With these tools, you can identify where partitions are located and extract them so that they can be analyzed with filesystem analysis tools.
Currently, TSK supports several filesystems, as NTFS, FAT, exFAT, HFS+, Ext3, Ext4, UFS and YAFFS2.
This package contains header files and static version of the library.
There are three methods to install libtsk-dev 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 libtsk-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libtsk-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libtsk-dev
Install libtsk-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libtsk-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libtsk-dev
Install libtsk-dev 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 libtsk-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libtsk-dev
How To Uninstall libtsk-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libtsk-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libtsk-dev
Uninstall libtsk-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libtsk-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libtsk-dev
Remove libtsk-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libtsk-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libtsk-dev
Remove libtsk-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libtsk-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libtsk-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libtsk-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
