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Practical Linux Forensics
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Practical Linux Forensics

by Bruce Nikkel
October 2021
Beginner to intermediate
400 pages
11h 15m
English
No Starch Press
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7EXAMINATION OF INSTALLED SOFTWARE PACKAGES

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This chapter covers the analysis of software installed on a Linux system, which includes software copied during the initial creation of a Linux system and software packages installed, updated, and removed during normal system administration. From a digital forensics perspective, we are interested in when software packages were installed on a system, what was installed, who installed them, and why. These same questions apply to software that has been removed (uninstalled). Linux systems and package managers have package databases and logs with timestamps that help to answer these questions.

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