Setting up plaso in 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 Core

Install virtualenv

To install virtualenv on Fedora Core (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

Setting up plaso in virtualenv

To create a virtualenv:

virtualenv plasoenv

To activate the virtualenv:

source ./plasoenv/bin/activate

Note that using pip outside virtualenv is not recommended since it ignores your systems package manager.

pip install --upgrade pip

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/log2timeline/plaso/master/requirements.txt
pip install -r requirements.txt

To install Python modules from source:

VENVDIR=`readlink -f plasoenv`
${VENVDIR}/bin/python setup.py build
${VENVDIR}/bin/python setup.py install

To deactivate the virtualenv run:

deactivate