Comments on: Howto Install Truecrypt with GUI tool in Ubuntu Gutsy

By: hiero2

hiero2 — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:41:58 +0000

As of May 26, 2010, this how-to is outdated. Truecrypt no longer offers a .deb download. Their installation tar simply extracts binary and assorted files to /usr/share directories. Can be made functional by messing about as superuser.

By: ok

ok — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:21:10 +0000

this is not working.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 15 May 2008 12:57:27 +0000

I’m trying to figure out why all the guides on this site use Ubuntu 7.10…

By: apeekaboo

apeekaboo — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:42:29 +0000

Truecrypt 5.1a works almost as good as the Windows-version of it. I’m only missing the ability to create hidden containers within a truecrypt container in Linux. You can however create the hidden container in Windows and then use it in Linux, no problem.

By: ændrük

ændrük — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:48:23 +0000

How does this compare with using something like EncFS+gui?

By: jj

jj — Wed, 14 May 2008 03:10:30 +0000

I do not believe you need to add the GUI in that Truecrypt 5.1a (Feb 08) includes it.

By: Red Five

Red Five — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:55:18 +0000

If you download and install TC 5.1a for Linux, you get a GUI built in, no extra packages. It looks and acts just like I remember from the Windows client.