Installing RegRipper v2.8 on Ubuntu

Digital Forensics
1 min readNov 30, 2018

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RegRipper is a great tool and now with the release of version 2.8, it supports even more plugins.

Installing RegRipper v2.8 on Ubuntu
perl -MCPAN -e ‘install Parse::Win32Registry’
sudo mkdir -p /opt/regripper
cd /opt/regripper/
wget https://github.com/keydet89/RegRipper2.8/archive/master.zip
sudo unzip master.zip
cd /Regripper2.8-master
# Shell script which makes rip.pl run on Linux (riplin.pl)
# Fix end of line
sudo cat rip.pl | sed ‘s|\r$||g’ > /tmp/riplin0.pl
# Now fix the first line so linux perl executed
sudo cat /tmp/riplin0.pl | sed “s| c:\\\\perl\\\\bin\\\\perl.exe|`which perl`|” > /tmp/riplin1.pl
# Fix the backslash before the plugins directory
sudo cat /tmp/riplin1.pl | sed ‘s|plugins\\\\|plugins/|’ > riplin.pl
# Make executable
sudo chmod +x riplin.pl

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