Attached updated version contains a tiny fix to the autopsy script in
/usr/local/bin



On Sun, Oct 11, 2026 at 10:00 PM Sebastian Reitenbach <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> this is the so long talked about Autopsy port.
>
> cat pkg/DESCR:
> Autopsy is a graphical interface to The Sleuth Kit and other open source
> digital forensics tools. Autopsy 3 was a complete rewrite from Autopsy
> 2 to make it Java-based. Autopsy 4 improves on Autopsy 3 by supporting
> collaboration on a single case by multiple users.
>
> It requires a few recently added ports: archivers/sevenzipjbinding,
> databases/sqlite-jdbc, sysutils/py-prefetch-parser, and updated port:
> sysutils/sleuthkit, and not yet, but here on the m/l available
> graphics/openjfx/21
>
> The "original" comes with a lot of bundled binaries and bundled jars,
> mainly targeting
> Windows users. It's supposed to run on Linux as well, but less tested, and
> less modules work there.
>
> What works:
>
>    -
>
>    *YARA Ingest Module:* uses system YARA (original Autopsy only supports
>    Windows)
>    -
>
>    *OpenCV:* uses system OpenCV (original Autopsy uses OpenCV 2, OpenBSD
>    has OpenCV 4)
>    -
>
>    *Plaso Ingest Module:* uses system Plaso (original Autopsy only
>    supports Windows)
>    -
>
>    *Embedded Files Module:* works with sevenzipjbinding
>    -
>
>    *Use system TestDisk/PhotoRec*
>    -
>
>    *Recent Activity Ingest Module:* uses system prefetch-parser
>    -
>
>    *Timeline View:* via OpenJFX port (WebKit component)
>    -
>
>    *Audio/Video Playback:* via OpenJFX (media component)
>    -
>
>    *Solr:* use bundled solr, (Keyword Indexer writes logs to ~/.solr/...)
>
>
> Pinning MODJAVA_VER to 21, as it depends on openjfx/21 which itself is
> pinned to JDK 21.
>
> Patching the autopsy.conf file in pre-build stage didn't work out, it kind
> of got re-generated, therefore this odd dance in pre-build: and do-install:
>
> There's one crasher I haven't figured out yet: it occurs at the end of
> adding a new datasource. Don't know yet how to get around it. But the case
> is created with the added datasource, so restarting and opening works.
> In case anyone is up to look into it, I've two disk images for testing
> here: https://github.com/buzzdeee/testfiles/tree/main/diskimages
>
> any testing, feedback etc. welcome.
>
> Sebastian
>
> --
> https://buzzdeee.reitenba.ch
>


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