Ubuntu – How to install Truecrypt

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I have a Windows 7 machine with Truecrypt. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 with the intention of converting to an Ubuntu only machine but I can't install Truecrypt on Ubuntu.

I have been looking through the forums and have followed all advice to the letter and still Truecrypt doesn't work; I have only a non-functional icon in "dash". Should I uninstall Ubuntu and start over (ie reinstall)? I love Ubuntu and greatly appreciate your efforts on this forum.

Best Answer

If you prefer to install from a ppa you can use this one for Ubuntu 12.04:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:michael-astrapi/ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install truecrypt

And to remove it:

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:michael-astrapi/ppa

In the past others have used different PPA: link here

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You need to create a mount point in order to do what you want. If I want my truecrypt1 volume to show up as "Private", I'll create a "Private" mountpoint with sudo mkdir /media/Private Then launch Truecrypt, select my encrypted drive and when I click on "Mount" I'm asked for my password and I can click "Option" to select my custom mount point. Voilà, it's done.

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.gvfs is a virtual mountpoint not owned by your login user (hence you don't have write-access to it). You will need to set up a mount point manually, e.g.

$ sudo mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt -o username=windowsuser,password=windowspassword

Once you have this you can mount the volume from there (in this example, /mnt) and it should work as expected.

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