Complete Guide: Installing volatility-tools on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) 2024

1. Install "volatility-tools" package

Please follow the guidance below to install volatility-tools on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                volatility-tools
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "volatility-tools" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall volatility-tools on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                volatility-tools
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the volatility-tools package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: volatility-tools
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 205
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Forensics
Architecture: all
Source: volatility
Version: 2.5-1
Depends: dwarfdump
Suggests: gcc, linux-headers, make, python, zip
Filename: pool/universe/v/volatility/volatility-tools_2.5-1_all.deb
Size: 44168
MD5sum: 1528078f5f382fcb0af6b11e55665e4b
SHA1: 187ba9b14a5bb4a23141b1805fe29e4f10e58ef8
SHA256: 74f81a78ca78343a5ed027747ada1936e1616c0efa707dc2e67b74bbc6ff1469
Description-en: 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.
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This package provides the code used to generate Linux and MAC profiles to
Volatility.
Description-md5: 979572f2ab3c3382549386ddd8475288
Homepage: http://www.volatilityfoundation.org
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu