How to install FTK-Imager on linux/ubuntu

This is my very first tutorial ever and i'm looking realy forward to it and hope i can help you guys.

Soo lets get started! (you need to be root for all of this! [sudo -s])

• Download the the compressed tarball-archive. Unhappily i only found a link for the 3.1.1 version which is pretty old (the actual version is 4.1.1) Here is the link: http://accessdata.com/product-download/debian-and-ubuntu-x64-3.1.1 

• the next step is to create a new directory for it in /opt/ and change the acces right temporary to 777

• mkdir /opt/ftk-imager

• chmod 777 /opt/ftk-imager

• then copy your downloaded tarball in this new directory.

• mv /home/<username>/Downloads/<filename> /opt/ftk-imager

• now extract the files:

• tar -xf /opt/ftk-imager/<filename>

• sooo now we need to create a symlink, so that we can use it in any directory with just typing "ftkimager" in the shell. 

• ln -s /opt/ftk-imager/<name-of-executable> /usr/bin/ftkimager

• done, you should be able to use ftkimager by now in every directory, just try it! type following commands and you should be seeing the help text :)

• cd

• ftkimager --help  

• now change the acces rights of the ftk-imager directory back to "normal" 

• chmod 755 /opt/ftk-imager

i hope it is all understandable and especially correct. If there is a typo or some kind of fault in it, feel free to contact me! thats just the way it worked for me.