How To Install libtsk19 on Debian 12

Learn how to install libtsk19 on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libtsk19 is library for forensics analysis on volume and filesystem data

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtsk19 on Debian 12.

What is libtsk19

libtsk19 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 the library which can be used to implement all of the functionality of the command line tools into an application that needs to analyze data from a disk image.

There are three methods to install libtsk19 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 libtsk19 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libtsk19 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libtsk19

Install libtsk19 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libtsk19 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libtsk19

Install libtsk19 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 libtsk19 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libtsk19

How To Uninstall libtsk19 on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libtsk19 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libtsk19

Uninstall libtsk19 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libtsk19 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libtsk19

Remove libtsk19 Configurations and Data

To remove libtsk19 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libtsk19

Remove libtsk19 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libtsk19 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libtsk19

Dependencies

libtsk19 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libtsk19 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.