How To Install affxml on Debian 11

One-liner install command

For those in a hurry, here's a one-line installation command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt -y install afflib-tools

But if you are interested in the detailed steps with descriptions, the following information is for you.

What is affxml and what are the ways to install it?

Before beginning this tutorial, you will need access to a server or computer running Debian 11. This guide was written specifically with a server running Debian 11 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install affxml on Debian 11. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install affxml using apt-get

First, update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt-get database, You can install affxml using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install afflib-tools

Install affxml using apt

Because affxml is available in Debian 11’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the apt packaging system.

To begin, update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, You can install affxml using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install afflib-tools

Install affxml using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian 11. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating aptitude database, You can install affxml by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install afflib-tools

How to upgrade (update) a single package affxml using apt-get?

First, you will need to update packages index. Run update command as usual:

sudo apt-get update

Next, to upgrade only the affxml, e.g. single package, you should use the following format with the apt-get command/apt command:

sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install afflib-tools

Note that this command will not install any new packages! If you wish to install the package if it doesn't exist you may leave out --only-upgrade part.

sudo apt-get install afflib-tools

How To Uninstall affxml from Debian 11

To uninstall only the affxml package you can execute the following command:

sudo apt-get remove afflib-tools

Uninstall affxml and all its dependencies

To uninstall affxml and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, you can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove afflib-tools

Remove affxml with all configurations and data

To remove affxml configuration and data from your system you can run the following purge command:

sudo apt-get -y purge afflib-tools

Remove affxml completely (configurations, data and all of its dependencies)

And lastly, you can run the next command to remove absolutely everything related to affxml package, e.g.: configurations, data and all of its dependencies. Just use this command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge afflib-tools

Extra info and code examples

The Advanced Forensic Format (AFF) is on-disk format for storing computer forensic information. Critical features of AFF include: - AFF allows you to store both computer forensic data and associated metadata in one or more files. - AFF allows files to be digital singed, to provide for chain-of-custody and long-term file integrity. - AFF allows for forensic disk images to stored encrypted and decrypted on-the-fly for processing. This allows disk images containing privacy sensitive material to be stored on the Internet. This package provides the AFF Toolkit, that is a set of programs for working with computer forensic information. Using these tools you can: * Interconvert disk images between a variety of formats, including: - raw or "dd"; - splitraw (in which a single image is split between mulitple files); - AFF format (in which the entire disk image is stored in a single file); - AFD format (in which a disk image is stored in mulitple AFF files stored in a single directory); - AFM format (in which an AFF file is used to annotate a raw file). * Compare disk images and report the data or metadata that is different. * Copy disk images from one location to another, with full verification of data, metadata, and the automatic generation of a chain-of-custody segment. * Find errors in an AFF file and fix them. * Print information about a file. * Print detailed statistics about a file * Generate a XML representation of a disk image's metadata (for example, acquisition time or the serial number of the acquisition device). * Produce a XML "diskprint" which allows a disk image to be rapidly fingerprinted without having the computer the SHA1 of the entire disk. The AFF Toolkit provides these executables: affcat, affcompare, affconvert, affcopy, affcrypto, affdiskprint, affinfo, affix, affrecover, affsegment, affsign, affstats, affuse, affverify and affxml.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install affxml using apt, apt-get and aptitude tools. Also, we showed how to update as a single package and different ways to uninstall the affxml from Debian 11.

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