Installing Autopsy 4.6.0 on linux
by Christian Kisutsa
Autopsy is a digital forensics tool that needs no introduction. It has a ton of capabilities such as registry analysis, email analysis, media analysis, android analysis etc. The fact that it's open source and is bundled with the ability to analyze android images is just super awesome.
I had previously tried to compile Autopsy for linux but i had little luck. I decided to try again with this version, that's packaged for linux. Here is how to go about it.
Update and install dependencies
- apt-get update
- apt-get install libafflib-dev libbfio-dev libc3p0-java libewf-dev libpostgresql-jdbc-java sleuthkit-java
Install and configure Java 8
- sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
- sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
Check for the Java version:
- java -version
- javac -version
- sudo update-alternatives --config java
Add path to environment
- sudo nano /etc/environment
- JAVA_HOME="/opt/jdk1.8.0_101"
- export JAVA_HOME
Initialize environment:
- source /etc/environment
Test Java HOME variable:
- echo $JAVA_HOME
Download and setup Autopsy
Create working directory:
- mkdir autopsy-4.6.0-linux
- cd autopsy-4.6.0-linux/
Download Autopsy:
- wget -nc -cq --show-progress https://github.com/sleuthkit/autopsy/releases/download/autopsy-4.6.0-linux1/sleuthkit-java_4.6.0-1_amd64.deb
- wget -nc -cq --show-progress https://github.com/sleuthkit/autopsy/releases/download/autopsy-4.6.0-linux1/autopsy-4.6.0-linux1.zip
Extract sleuthkit and manual install:
- dpkg -x sleuthkit-java_4.6.0-1_amd64.deb sleuthkit
- sudo cp -r sleuthkit/usr/* /usr/
Extract Autopsy:
- mkdir autopsy-4.6.0-linux
- unzip autopsy-4.6.0-linux1.zip -d autopsy-4.6.0-linux
Configure Autopsy:
- cd autopsy-4.6.0-linux/
- chmod +x unix_setup.sh
- ./unix_setup.sh
Start autopsy:
- cd bin/
- ./autopsy
References
- https://www.sleuthkit.org/autopsy/
- https://www.sleuthkit.org/autopsy/features.php
- https://github.com/sleuthkit/autopsy/releases/
- https://medium.com/coderscorner/installing-oracle-java-8-in-ubuntu-16-10-845507b13343
About the Author
Christian Kisutsa - Information Security Analyst
The article was originally published at: https://www.shadowinfosec.io/2018/06/installing-autopsy-460-on-linux.html