How To Install python-libewf on Debian 10

Learn how to install python-libewf on Debian 10 with this tutorial. python-libewf is support for Expert Witness Compression format – Python 2 bindings

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-libewf on Debian 10.

What is python-libewf

python-libewf 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 Python 2 bindings for libewf.

There are three methods to install python-libewf on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install python-libewf Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install python-libewf

Install python-libewf Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install python-libewf

Install python-libewf 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 python-libewf using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python-libewf

How To Uninstall python-libewf on Debian 10

To uninstall only the python-libewf package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python-libewf

Uninstall python-libewf And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python-libewf and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-libewf

Remove python-libewf Configurations and Data

To remove python-libewf configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python-libewf

Remove python-libewf configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-libewf

Dependencies

python-libewf have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python-libewf package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.