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Quick installation of volatility-tools:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: volatility-tools
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install volatility-tools
Package Details | |
| Package: | volatility-tools |
| Version: | 2.5+git20161121.ecd8a54-1 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility |
| Description: | generate profiles to Volatility Framework The Volatility Framework is a completely open collection of tools for the extraction of digital artifacts from volatile memory (RAM) samples. It is useful in forensics analysis. . This package provides the code used to generate Linux and MAC profiles to Volatility. |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 17.04 |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | universe/utils |
How to install volatility-tools on Ubuntu 17.04?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
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Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 17.04 on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If volatility-tools is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L volatility-tools' will give followin error.
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L volatility-tools dpkg-query: package 'volatility-tools' is not installed Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$
Installing volatility-tools:
After system update use the following command to install volatility-tools:
sudo apt-get install volatility-tools
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 17.04 Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove volatility-tools from Ubuntu 17.04?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the volatility-tools from Ubuntu 17.04. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the volatility-tools following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove volatility-tools
Following command is used to remove the volatility-tools package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove volatility-tools
This will remove volatility-tools and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing volatility-tools with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge volatility-tools
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove volatility-tools
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with volatility-tools package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.
