How To Install forensics-all on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install forensics-all on Ubuntu.

What is `forensics-all`

forensics-all is:

This package provides the core components for a forensics environment. All here available tools are packaged by Debian Security Tools Team. This metapackage includes the most programs to data recovery, rootkit and exploit search, filesystems and memory analysis, image acquisition, volume inspection, special actions over the hardware and many other activities.

The following packages were included in this metapackage:

acct, aesfix, afflib-tools, aircrack-ng, arp-scan, binwalk, braa, bruteforce-salted-openssl, bruteforce-wallet, brutespray, btscanner, bully, capstone-tool, ccrypt, cewl, chaosreader, chkrootkit, cowpatty, crack or crack-md5, dc3dd, de4dot, dirb, dislocker, dnsrecon, doona, dsniff, ed2k-hash, exifprobe, ext4magic, extundelete, ewf-tools, fcrackzip, forensic-artifacts, forensics-colorize, galleta, grokevt, hashid, hashrat, hydra, john, mac-robber, magicrescue, maskprocessor, masscan, mdk3, mdk4, medusa, memdump, metacam, mfcuk, mfoc, missidentify, myrescue, nasty, nbtscan, ncat, ncrack, ndiff, nmap, o-saft, ophcrack-cli, outguess, pasco, patator, pff-tools, pipebench, pixiewps, pnscan, polenum, pompem, recoverdm, recoverjpeg, reglookup, rephrase, rfdump, rhash, rifiuti, rifiuti2, rkhunter, rsakeyfind, safecopy, samdump2, scalpel, scrounge-ntfs, shed, sleuthkit, smbmap, snowdrop, ssdeep, ssldump, statsprocessor, stegcracker, steghide, stegsnow, sucrack, tableau-parm, tcpick, testssl.sh, undbx, unhide, unhide.rb, vinetto, wapiti, wfuzz, winregfs, wipe, xmount, yara

This metapackage is useful for pentesters, ethical hackers and forensics experts.

There are three methods to install forensics-all on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install forensics-all Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install forensics-all

Install forensics-all Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install forensics-all

Install forensics-all 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 forensics-all using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install forensics-all

How To Uninstall forensics-all on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the forensics-all package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove forensics-all

Uninstall forensics-all And Its Dependencies

To uninstall forensics-all and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove forensics-all

Remove forensics-all Configurations and Data

To remove forensics-all configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge forensics-all

Remove forensics-all configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge forensics-all

Dependencies

forensics-all have the following dependencies:

References

forensics-all website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install forensics-all package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.