autopsy-flatpak/homebrew

Installing from Homebrew

Autopsy can be installed from homebrew by running brew with autopsy4.rb in this directory. Before you run the command, you may want to remove any previous versions of Autopsy and The Sleuth Kit, especially if they are installed /usr/local/ as homebrew installs binaries and libraries in the same directory, which may cause conflicts. So the full path would be something like: brew install --debug --build-from-source --verbose ./autopsy4.rb when executing from this directory. After that point, you should be able to run autopsy from the command line by calling autopsy.

Updating Versions for Homebrew

The version of Autopsy in the homebrew script can be updated by calling version_update.py with a command like python version_update.py -s https://path/to/sleuthkit-version.tar.gz -a https://path/to/autopsy-version.zip. You will likely need to install the python dependencies in the requirements.txt with a command like: pip install -r requirements.txt.

The version of Autopsy can be updated manually by modifying the following variables in autopsy4.rb:

• AUTOPSY_RESOURCE_URL: the location of the autopsy platform zip like https://github.com/sleuthkit/autopsy/releases/download/autopsy-4.19.2/autopsy-4.19.2.zip
• AUTOPSY_RESOURCE_SHA256: the SHA-256 of the autopsy platform zip. This can be calculated by running curl <url> | sha256sum
• TSK_RESOURCE_URL: the location of the sleuthkit compressed files like https://github.com/sleuthkit/sleuthkit/releases/download/sleuthkit-4.11.1/sleuthkit-4.11.1.tar.gz
• TSK_RESOURCE_SHA256: the SHA-256 of the sleuthkit compressed files.

There is more information in Jira 8425.