How To Install reglookup-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install reglookup-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is reglookup-doc
reglookup-doc 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.
This package contains the all developer documentation for libraries libregfi and python-pyregfi.
There are three methods to install reglookup-doc 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 reglookup-doc 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-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install reglookup-doc
Install reglookup-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install reglookup-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install reglookup-doc
Install reglookup-doc 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 reglookup-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install reglookup-doc
How To Uninstall reglookup-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the reglookup-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove reglookup-doc
Uninstall reglookup-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall reglookup-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove reglookup-doc
Remove reglookup-doc Configurations and Data
To remove reglookup-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge reglookup-doc
Remove reglookup-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove reglookup-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge reglookup-doc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install reglookup-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
