Developing in a Virtualenv

For development purposes, Plaso can be installed using virtualenv.

Note that this is intended for development use only, and if you aren’t comfortable debugging package installation, this is not for you.

Fedora

Install virtualenv

To install virtualenv on Fedora (or equivalent) run:

sudo dnf install python-virtualenv

Installing build dependencies

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Ubuntu

Installing virtualenv

To install virtualenv on Ubuntu (or equivalent) run:

sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv

Installing build dependencies

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sudo apt-get install libyaml-dev liblzma-dev

MacOS

Installing virtualenv

TODO

Installing build dependencies

TODO

Setting up Plaso in a virtualenv

  1. Create a virtualenv called ‘plasoenv’ virtualenv plasoenv

  2. Activate the virtualenv: source ./plasoenv/bin/activate

  3. Update pip (Note that using pip outside virtualenv is not recommended as it ignores your systems package manager.): pip install --upgrade pip

  4. Install the Python requirements

    # Where 'plaso' is your local Plaso source directory
cd plaso
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/log2timeline/plaso/master/requirements.txt
pip install -r requirements.txt

  5. Once you finish you development session, deactivate virtualenv: deactivate