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. You could get Volatility from apt, even though, it is not the last version and I recommend getting Volatility from the GitHub repository.
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.
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!).
If you want to uninstall follow this steps:
- Delete the
/opt/vol/directory - The script also installs the packages
python2,python-dev,git,build-essentialandpython3-virtualenvif missing so in case you don't need them just uninstall them manually - Remove the
alias volatility=...line in you.bashrcor.zshrcfile