How To Install reglookup on Debian 10

Learn how to install reglookup on Debian 10 with this tutorial. reglookup is utility to analysis for Windows NT-based registry

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install reglookup on Debian 10.

What is reglookup

reglookup is:

RegLookup is a system to direct analysis of Windows NT-based registry files providing command line tools, a C API, and a Python module for accessing registry data structures. The project has a focus on providing tools for digital forensics investigations (though is useful for many purposes), and includes algorithms for retrieving deleted data structures from registry hives.

Currently the program allows one to read an entire registry and output it in a (mostly) standardized, quoted format. It also provides features for filtering of results based on registry path and data type. The package provides the following commands: reglookup, reglookup-recover and reglookup-timeline.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install reglookup

Install reglookup Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install reglookup

Install reglookup 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 reglookup using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install reglookup

How To Uninstall reglookup on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove reglookup

Uninstall reglookup And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove reglookup

Remove reglookup Configurations and Data

To remove reglookup configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge reglookup

Remove reglookup configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge reglookup

Dependencies

reglookup have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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