dislocker doesn't work after upgrade from 17.10 to 18.04

Question

Any use of dislocker returns this error:

dislocker: error while loading shared libraries: libmbedcrypto.so.0:
 cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

How to fix it?

Answer 1

I have finally did it.

Steps to get it to work:

1. add /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ to LD_LIBRARY_PATH:

   LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

2. in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ i have libmbedcrypto.so.2.8.0 so i had to create symlink as mentioned before by Elder

   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu$ sudo ln -sf libmbedcrypto.so.2.8.0 libmbedcrypto.so.0

3. after doing that there was also a problem with libruby-2.3.so.2.3. Doing another symlink solved that problem to:

   sudo ln -sf libruby-2.5.so.2.5 libruby-2.3.so.2.3

After that dislocker is finally working and i can decrypt my windows bitlocker encrypted drives.

Answer 2

libmbedcrypto.so is contained within the libmbedtls-dev package in the universe repository.

First enable the universe repository if it isn't already.

Then issue the command sudo apt install libmbedtls-dev

You might need to create a softlink called libmbedcrypto.so.0 linking to libmbedcrypto.so as mentioned here.

Note: I haven't personally tested this approach but logically it would seem worth a try.