How To Install missidentify on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install missidentify
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is missidentify
missidentify is:
Miss Identify (missidentify) is a program to find MS Windows type win32 applications. By default, it displays the filename of any executable that does not have an extension, as exe, dll, com, sys, cpl, hxs, hxi, olb, rll or tlb. It can also display all the executables regardless the extension.
Miss Identify is useful in forensics investigations.
There are three methods to install missidentify
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install missidentify Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install missidentify
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install missidentify
Install missidentify Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install missidentify
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install missidentify
Install missidentify 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 missidentify
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install missidentify
How To Uninstall missidentify on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the missidentify
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove missidentify
Uninstall missidentify And Its Dependencies
To uninstall missidentify
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove missidentify
Remove missidentify Configurations and Data
To remove missidentify
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge missidentify
Remove missidentify configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove missidentify
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge missidentify
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install missidentify
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.