SleuthKit/Autopsy Installation Error

Have you installed sleuthkit to a specific location, such as jailing it within a folder, or using the –prefix switch with ./configure?

I've not got any experience of installing sleuthkit with cygwin specifically, but when I last installed autopsy/sleuthkit I had to specify my path to the sleuthkit files, as I had installed it into a non-standard location. you could try putting the path to the bin directory within your sleuthkit installation, which appears to be what it is asking you for.

Also, when installing from source code on Linux/Unix, you don't actually need to do ./configure on autopsy, you can skip it and go straight to make. Perhaps try that?

Hope this helps

Ben

I know that these instructions are a bit older, but have you consulted them
http//www.sleuthkit.org/sleuthkit/docs/lucas_cygwin.pdf

I have used this document during installation…

thanks

I tried cygwin some time ago and found it such a hassle to get it to work as you would expect in the *nix world that I gave up.

These days I use a VM that I built myself and that has shared folders pointing to the drives on my Windows machine. The shares are mounted at user log-on. This way I have access to the files from my Windows workstation and can work on them with native Linux tools if needs be (which is quite often). It's the best of both worlds.

Caine have just released a tool called caine-from-deb that will turn a bog-standard ubuntu 10.04 machine into one that is replete with forensic tools. Just grab yourself the 10.04 Ubuntu distribution (x86 version), install it, update the packages then download and run the caine-from-deb tool. How easy is that?

Paul

Is the file package installed?

Is the file package installed?

Yes, in fact I don't know of any major Linux distribution that doesn't have it. By and large, Linux ignores extensions and uses the file tool to identify file types instead.

Paul