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Autopsy® is a digital forensics platform and graphical interface to The Sleuth Kit® and other digital forensics tools. It can be used by law enforcement, military, and corporate examiners to investigate what happened on a computer. You can even use it to recover photos from your camera's memory card.
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Improve Linux install instructions #5734

Closed mfrade closed 4 years ago

mfrade commented 4 years ago

The file Running_Linux_OSX.txt states that in order to guarantee the installation of JavaFX we should install an outdated version of Java: sudo apt-get install bellsoft-java8=1.8.0.232+10

However, I beleive there's a better solution, accordinglinly to Bell Liberica:

All our packages follow the naming conventions described below bellsoft-java<VNUM>-<VARIANT> where VNUM is a version number most known as a feature version or formerly known as a major version. VARIANT defines the content of the package. Liberica is distributed in the following variants of packages:

<no suffix> — a regular package that contains the full Liberica JDK, not including JavaFX. full — contains the full Liberica JDK, including JavaFX and a variety of JVMs for platforms that support it. runtime-full — contains Java SE Runtime Environment, including JavaFX.

So, bellsoft-java8 doesn't include JavaFX, but both bellsoft-java8-full and bellsoft-java8-runtime-full include JavaFX. Rightnow I'm running Autopsy 4.14 without any problems on Ubuntu 18.04 with bellsoft-java8-full and Java build 1.8.0_242-b07.

Personaly I think that installing an outdated version of Java is not the best option and therefore I suggest to update the Linux install instructions with: sudo apt-get install bellsoft-java8-full

esaunders commented 4 years ago

@mfrade Thanks for the suggestion. This change has now been merged. Can you close out this issue if you are satisfied with the change?

mfrade commented 4 years ago

@esaunders I'm completely satisfied with the change. Issue closed.

webhat commented 4 years ago

I would like to add that the version that is provided with the current Autopsy Training still contains this issue.