[sleuthkit-users] libswt-gtk-3-java (unlisted requirement for Autopsy in Linux)

[Luis 'P. G. <po...@po...>]

Hi everyone

TL/DR: libswt-gtk-3-java is a requirement, not listed anywhere.

I was trying to get Autopsy running on Linux, under different distros so
far: Debian 9.6, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Kali, all of them 64-bit.

After installing sleuthkit-java and following all these steps
<https://github.com/sleuthkit/autopsy/blob/develop/Running_Linux_OSX.txt>,
the software would run but I couldn't create cases. Thing is:

   - Click "Create case"
   - Enter case name and base path (permissions are OK there)
   - Optionally enter case number, notes...
   - Upon clicking FINISH, "creating case database" appears briefly and
   then a dialog is shown with "Cannot create case", and "null" as the only
   description, and an OK button.
   - After this point, if the above process is repeated, the same error
   appears but instead of null, it says: "Cannot initialize
   class.org.sleuthkit.autopsy.casemodule.services.TagNameDefinition".

In the bottom right corner I could see this error: "Error initializing
JavaFX. Some features will not be available. Check that you have the right
JRE installed (Oracle JRE > 1.7.10)."

I tried to get Java in several ways, including this PPA repo
<https://medium.com/coderscorner/installing-oracle-java-8-in-ubuntu-16-10-845507b13343>,
as well as downloading jdk-8u192-linux-x64.tar.gz
and/or server-jre-8u192-linux-x64.tar.gz directly from Oracle, and
update-alternatives accordingly, and putting the right JAVA_HOME in
/etc/environment.

Finally found the solution here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21185156/javafx-on-linux-is-showing-a-graphics-device-initialization-failed-for-es2-s
and it's as simple as installing libswt-gtk-3-java. I guess this should be
a dependency of the sleuthkit-java package.

Now let's enjoy it in Linux. I've been missing this since the good old 2.x
days!

Pope