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Topic: help installing truecrypt

Unia wrote:
biology-geek wrote:

K...so two complaints.

1.)  Install doesn't give me the option to encrypt my "home" directory.

2.)  Does not come  with "Cheese" webcam software.

The two complaints are the only shortcomings.  If both were resolved I'd declare #! the best OS for netbooks ever.

Bio...

Cheese is very easily installed by yourself; run sudo apt-get install cheese and voila, done in 3 seconds!
Home encryption is something you can do yourself as well, I don't know about it so google is your friend right there.

There's also www.truecrypt.org/ for a cross-platform encryption...

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  • Registered: 2011-01-07
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Re: help installing truecrypt

merelyjim wrote:

There's also www.truecrypt.org/ for a cross-platform encryption...

I can't get truecrypt to install/run on #!.  I can make it work on EasyPeasy (ubuntu)...

Bio....

  • Registered: 2010-09-12
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Re: help installing truecrypt

biology-geek wrote:
merelyjim wrote:

There's also www.truecrypt.org/ for a cross-platform encryption...

I can't get truecrypt to install/run on #!.  I can make it work on EasyPeasy (ubuntu)...

Bio....

Error message?

  • Registered: 2011-01-07
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Re: help installing truecrypt

I'm sure I just don't know what I'm doing.  I've attempted to execute the shell script.  Changed permissions on the file.  It simply won't execute in #! while in EasyPeasy it installs pretty easily.  No error message...just a lack of it installing.  Anyone want to suggest how to "install" it?

Further more I can't get "ecryptfs" to work either.  Gives me the "ecryptfs kernel module not loaded" error message.  Any ideas?

Bio

boromeus wrote:
biology-geek wrote:
merelyjim wrote:

There's also www.truecrypt.org/ for a cross-platform encryption...

I can't get truecrypt to install/run on #!.  I can make it work on EasyPeasy (ubuntu)...

Bio....

Error message?

Last edited by biology-geek (2011-01-08 20:42:52)

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Re: help installing truecrypt

Open a terminal and run chmod +x on the script and then run it like ./scriptname.sh

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Re: help installing truecrypt

anonymous wrote:

Open a terminal and run chmod +x on the script and then run it like ./scriptname.sh


Did not work...what is the command line syntax exactly?  Really wish #! came with encrytion when I downloaded it.  Too late to get my money back?

Joking aside this is a really cool OS.  I got Cheese installed and added to the menu.  Only thing that keeps this puppy from being the greatest OS in the world is a classy encryption tool.  Wish I could encrypt the whole disk, but truecrypt doesn't permit it on Linux systems (as I've read).  I'd like to setup a hidden OS and a decoy OS.  Would just be cool, you know?

Bio...

Last edited by biology-geek (2011-01-08 20:59:06)

  • luc
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Re: help installing truecrypt

open terminal and type

cd folder/with/the/script
chmod +x the_script.sh
./the_script.sh

and then if it does not work you best put some of the output it produces (if any) here in such a code box like above
luc

  • Registered: 2010-09-22
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Re: help installing truecrypt

Please, any help install truecrypt would appreciated. Yea I'm embarrassed I don't know how use the code box.

cd ~/downloads
~/downloads$ ls
truecrypt-7.0a-linux-x64.tar.gz
truecrypt-7.0a-setup-x64

~/downloads$ sudo chmod +x truecrypt-7.0a-setup-x64.sh
chmod: cannot access `truecrypt-7.0a-setup-x64.sh': No such file or directory

~/downloads$ chmod +x truecrypt-7.0a-setup-x64.sh
chmod: cannot access `truecrypt-7.0a-setup-x64.sh': No such file or directory

:~/downloads$ truecrypt-7.0a-setup-x64.sh
bash: truecrypt-7.0a-setup-x64.sh: command not found

:~/downloads$ sudo truecrypt-7.0a-setup-x64.sh
bash: truecrypt-7.0a-setup-x64.sh: command not found

also tried ./configure, make, make install

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Re: help installing truecrypt

Your ls command shows the filename as truecrypt-7.0a-setup-x64 so try:

chmod +x truecrypt-7.0a-setup-x64

Also to do the codeboxes you do:

[ code]text goes in here[ /code]

Just remove the spaces I inserted.

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  • Registered: 2010-09-22
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Re: help installing truecrypt

THANKS YOU THANKS YOU THANKS YOU

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  • Registered: 2010-09-22
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Re: help installing truecrypt

Still can't access the encrypted dropbox file. But I think I know why. I was on Linux Mint with nautilus and I formatted the truecrypt file as ext4. So I'm guessing thunar can't access an encrypted file created and formatted with nautilus. or I just messed up the truecrypt formatting in the first place. Dose this make any sense?

I use Linux Mint on laptop and crunchbang on the desktop. Just testing to see if I can access truecrypt files with different online storage apps like Dropbox,Spideroak, and Box.net

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  • From: UK
  • Registered: 2011-09-01
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Re: help installing truecrypt

luc wrote:

open terminal and type

cd folder/with/the/script
chmod +x the_script.sh
./the_script.sh

and then if it does not work you best put some of the output it produces (if any) here in such a code box like above
luc


Thanks this got me there too, made a note of this for future reference. smile

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Re: help installing truecrypt

crunchbang@crunchbang:~$ chmod +x truecrypt-7.1-setup-x86
crunchbang@crunchbang:~$

installation wiz not coming

any idea?

  • Registered: 2011-11-30
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Re: help installing truecrypt

pbfu wrote:
crunchbang@crunchbang:~$ chmod +x truecrypt-7.1-setup-x86
crunchbang@crunchbang:~$

installation wiz not coming

any idea?

Yeah, chmod only makes the file executable, but after that you'll have to actually execute it as well.

You can do this by adding the entire filepath or "./" to the filename. In your case you can either use

~/truecrypt-7.1-setup-x86

while being anywhere, or use

./truecrypt-7.1-setup-x86

when you're in the same directory as the file.

Regards,

Anakin

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Re: help installing truecrypt

Anakinholland wrote:
./truecrypt-7.1-setup-x86

when you're in the same directory as the file.

Regards,

Anakin

Man this commmand worked and truecrypt got installed  smile smile big_smile
thanks a lot Anakinholland