How To Install sleuthkit on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sleuthkit on Kali Linux.
What is sleuthkit
sleuthkit 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 set of command line tools in The Sleuth Kit.
There are three methods to install sleuthkit on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install sleuthkit Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install sleuthkit using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sleuthkitInstall sleuthkit Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install sleuthkit using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sleuthkitInstall sleuthkit Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install sleuthkit using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sleuthkitHow To Uninstall sleuthkit on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the sleuthkit package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sleuthkitUninstall sleuthkit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sleuthkit and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sleuthkitRemove sleuthkit Configurations and Data
To remove sleuthkit configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sleuthkitRemove sleuthkit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sleuthkit configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sleuthkitDependencies
sleuthkit have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sleuthkit package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
