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