https://github.com/anthares101/volatility-installer

An easy to use volatility installer
https://github.com/anthares101/volatility-installer

hacktoberfest installer linux python script volatility

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An easy to use volatility installer

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/anthares101/volatility-installer
• Owner: anthares101
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2020-10-19T01:03:59.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2022-10-25T23:56:00.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-04T23:01:52.650Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: hacktoberfest, installer, linux, python, script, volatility
• Language: Shell
• Homepage:
• Size: 1.44 MB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Volatility installer

If you researched a bit, the Volatility releases are not up to date and if you want to have an updated version you need to get Volatility from its GitHub 

[repository](https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility). You could get Volatility from `apt`, even though, it is not the last version and I recommend getting Volatility from the GitHub repository.

## Why this installer?

Installing Volatility from the repository can be a bit tricky beacuse of all the needed dependencies, some of them even need a certain version in order to work since Volatility use Python 2. To avoid this process every time I needed to setup a fresh Linux install, I decided to create this script.

The script will install all the Python dependencies in a virtual environment so don't worry about your local Python installation.

## Disclaimer

The script should work in all Linux distributions with Bash and the `apt` packet manager but it is only tested in Ubuntu and Kali. The installation process will create an alias to your `.bashrc` or `.zshrc` in order to execute Volatility from any location. If you dont use Bash or Zsh as your main shell you will need to add the alias yourself (Sorry!).

# Uninstalling Volatility

If you want to uninstall follow this steps:

- Delete the `/opt/vol/` directory

- The script also installs the packages `python2`, `python-dev`, `git`, `build-essential` and `python3-virtualenv` if missing so in case you don't need them just uninstall them manually

- Remove the `alias volatility=...` line in you `.bashrc` or `.zshrc` file