Provide installation procedure for Linux

[sidahmed-malaoui]

I've been looking for a while on the net, and I can't find any useful procedure to install the latest version of autopsy on Linux.

So can you provide an installation procedure on the README.md file please.

[rcordovano]

sidahmed-malaoui, at Basis Technology we are not currently actively supporting Autopsy on Linux, although community efforts to do so are underway. I hope to make the change to README.md that you are requesting at some time in the future.

Sincerely,
Richard Cordovano
Autopsy Team Lead
Director of Engineering - Digital Forensics, Basis Technology

[sidahmed-malaoui]

Thanks, I appreciate it.

[bcarrier]

I just created a shell of a README just for Linux and OS X. For those that are working on getting Autopsy working on Linux and OS X, they can add their instructions to this file and send them to us via pull requests.

[sidahmed-malaoui]

Thanks @bcarrier .

[marshalla99]

This is a working installation file for Debian systems. It has a few nasty dependencies - which are documented in the comments - so may break, but it gets Autopsy 4.5.1 up and running on my test system.

NewAutopyInst.sh.txt

[cogwizzle]

@marshalla99 I'm going to take the script you just posted and spin it up inside of a docker container to bootstrap the plugin development process.

[cogwizzle]

@marshalla99 Do you want to create a git repository for that code so that other people can contribute and make pull request?

[marshalla99]

I guess we could - or we could just add it to this repository as a linux build option and update the Readme that Brian has left as a placeholder.

Maybe create a folder full of Linux build scripts to cater for apt, dnf and yum based systems in particular?

[cogwizzle]

@marshalla99, @bcarrier It is up to you. I'm still pretty new to the project, but I'd really like to make the startup process easier for those trying to get this running on Linux.

[marshalla99]

I'd vote for doing it as part of the main distribution and keeping it within this structure - it'll get a wider audience and keep everything under one umbrella. But it's really up to @bcarrier and @rcordovano as the leads, I guess.

[marshalla99]

For now, since I'm evolving scripts for Debian and Ubuntu (with the intention of adding Autopsy 4 to a live distro. for a course I'm teaching next year), I'm making the scripts available on a Google Drive shared folder at: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wL8_JI6U_3_Kq4hJKBhxhGIJk-sSdVVK?usp=sharing

[danpos]

@marshalla99 Hi, I have made a few fixes to your script, to compile and build Autopsy 4.5.1 as a non-root user in my Ubuntu16.04 x64 workstation.

NewAutopsyInst.sh.txt

[marshalla99]

Cool. Thanks. I'll merge into the newest versions later this week.