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How can I install volatility 2.4 on ubuntu?

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Is there any debian packages?

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Quick, practical notes for installing Volatility 2.4 on Ubuntu (adds to what and started).

Volatility 2 is a Python 2.x tool (not Python 3) and has a small set of recommended optional libraries (distorm3, YARA, PyCrypto, PIL, openpyxl, ujson) that enable many plugins. You can either run vol.py directly from the extracted folder (no system install) or install it system-wide; the project docs explain both options. (github.com)

Suggested Ubuntu workflow (avoids repeating the tar/setup steps already shown in this thread):

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y python2 python2-dev build-essential git
curl -O https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py
sudo python2 get-pip.py
sudo python2 -m pip install --upgrade setuptools wheel
sudo python2 -m pip install distorm3==3.4.4 pycrypto pillow openpyxl ujson pytz ipython

If a package like pycrypto fails to compile, pycryptodome is a maintained, mostly drop-in replacement for PyCrypto and can be used instead. After dependencies are satisfied you can run Volatility in-place (python2 vol.py --info) or perform the project install to place vol.py in your PATH. (pycryptodome.org)

Troubleshooting tips: several users have hit distorm3 import errors with newer distorm3 releases; pinning to a 3.4.x (or, in some reports, 3.3.x) build often resolves the problem. If a plugin complains about Crypto.Hash, recheck that the Python you use to run Volatility is the same one that installed the packages (use python2 -m pip / pip2). (cylab.be)

(References: Volatility installation notes and README; PyCryptodome compatibility notes.)

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tar.gz

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Yes,I extracterd tar.gz but I'm not sure how can I install it?

Desktop# tar -zxvf volatility-2.4.tar.gz
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To install on Linux, you will need to build from source. Here is the link: http://downloads.volatilityfoundation.org/releases/2.4/volatility-2.4.tar.gz

Download, untar with the command "tar -zxvf volatility-2.4.tar.gz". Go into the directory created. There may be a configure script. If so, run that as in "./configure". If that succeeds, then next run the make command, and finally "sudo make install" to install it. The default location will be in /usr/local instead of /usr, so /usr/local/bin will need to be in your path environment variable.

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I couldn't find configure file :)

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Is there a Makefile? I'll download and check it out to better help you.

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Ok. This is a python script. There is a Makefile, and running "make" will put the script and stuff in the build directory. Then if you run "sudo make install" it will put all the stuff in the proper places so you can run vol.py to run it - it is put in /usr/bin/vol.py. There may be missing python modules that you will need to install. In my case, there were several.

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Thanks so much
We nee to install also Python package (distorm3)
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/distorm3

unzip distorm3-3.3.0.zip 

distorm3-3.3.0# python setup.py build install
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