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notadaughter

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[SOLVED] Give myself permission writing to /usr/lib

I've installed Volatility3. When running, it oftentimes requires writing to /usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/volatility3/symbols/. What's the best way to do it without sudo? Should I change the ownership? Should I give writing permission to "other"? Or maybe should I just run it with sudo every time?

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Re: [SOLVED] Give myself permission writing to /usr/lib

None of the above. User-run processes should never write to system directories.

How did you install this software?

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notadaughter

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Re: [SOLVED] Give myself permission writing to /usr/lib

sudo pacman -S volatility3

How did you install this software?

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Give myself permission writing to /usr/lib

https://github.com/volatilityfoundation … issues/598 ?

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notadaughter

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Re: [SOLVED] Give myself permission writing to /usr/lib

So, as far as I understand, the best way is just to install Volatility3 locally via git clone?

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Re: [SOLVED] Give myself permission writing to /usr/lib

By altering the symbols_basepath constant you can put a user writable directory first, that would still be used by the installed system. This can also done by adding -s <path> manually to each invocation of the CLI.

Just create a folder ~/.config/volatility  and setup a shell alias that adds -s ~/.config/volatility to the command used to start volatililty .
For bash read https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bash#Aliases .

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notadaughter

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Re: [SOLVED] Give myself permission writing to /usr/lib

Thanks!