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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.

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How did you install? What have you tried? – Mitch Aug 12 '12 at 10:21
No need to Re-Install entire Ubuntu OS for Truecrypt , please provide info as in above asked by Mitch. – tijybba Aug 12 '12 at 12:25
I downloaded Truecrypt for linux, 32 bit. Following various methods, I checked "open with archive manager" or "save file", then on Ubuntu 12.04 I tried "run in terminal" or "run". I am not new to Truecrypt and in all cases I followed all instructions. Nothing worked even though the advice was for other people and it worked for them. I shoul add that I uninstalled Truecrypt in windows and with each failed install in Ubuntu I uninstalled the download and started over with someone else's method (as described above). Again, thank you for your help. – Duanek Aug 12 '12 at 17:18

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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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I had similar issues on ubuntu 12.04 & installing truecrypt 7.1

however finally what worked was simply:

tar xzvf truecrypt*.gz
  • this extracted the file truecrypt-7.1a-setup-x86 in the same directory.

Then I ran the command:

./truecrypt-7.1a-setup-x86

This will install everything perfectly.

sunil

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