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Duke Nukem

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Registered: 2018-11-07

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[SOLVED] Where is Veracrypt?

Can't find Veracrypt (or Truecrypt which preceded it). I'm sure it was in the repositories not long ago, at least when I was using Peppermint OS which was based on Daedalus (I understood). I'm running Excalibur now.

I did find something called tcplay which claims to do veracrypt's job, but it was implausibly small in size and after installing, it seems to have vanished into oblivion - not in the menus and not found by a file search or by command line.

rolfie

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Registered: 2017-11-25

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Re: [SOLVED] Where is Veracrypt?

No, neither of them ever were in the Debian/Devuan repos.

Veracrypt to be obtained from: https://veracrypt.io/en/Home.html

You may find a similar package in the repo: zulucrypt.

Altoid

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Registered: 2017-05-07

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Re: [SOLVED] Where is Veracrypt?

Hello:

... not in the menus and not found by a file search or by command line.

You may want to run a fine tooth comb through all your logs, just in case.
There has to be / should be some indication as to what transpired when you installed it.

Should not be an issue if you got it from the Devuan repository,but still.

Have a look here: https://linux.die.net/man/8/tcplay

Best,

A.

Last edited by Altoid (2025-10-31 20:01:35)

ralph.ronnquist

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Re: [SOLVED] Where is Veracrypt?

check out man cryptsetup

stultumanto

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Registered: 2023-12-12

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Re: [SOLVED] Where is Veracrypt?

Are you trying to invoke tcplay as a regular user, but don't have /sbin/ in your path? I just ran apt-file list tcplay, and it says the package installs the executable to /usr/sbin/tcplay.

Duke Nukem

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Registered: 2018-11-07

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Re: [SOLVED] Where is Veracrypt?

Thanks for the help.  I uninstalled and re-installed tcplay and it did then turn up in /usr/sbin, which was not in my path. Seems to be working although I've not yet used it in earnest.

I am in the process of a re-installation of Devuan due to a change of motherboard which for some reason has fubarred the previous installation despite not changing anything with the drives. Long story, maybe something to do with UFEI.
 
A bit OT, wasn't there something about Debian/Devuan re-allocating files in the newest versions to cut out the /usr directory level? eg /usr/bin/ to /bin/

abower

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Registered: 2024-04-19

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Re: [SOLVED] Where is Veracrypt?

It's the other way round: 'usrmerge' converts /bin and /sbin into symlinks pointing to the corresponding directories under /usr. It's not new to Excalibur but does become compulsory.

I use cryptsetup for whole disk encryption. It has good Devuan integration. Since Excalibur it can also harness OPAL hardware-based SSD encryption - I use this on low performance machines.