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Please help me with the working of cryptsetup and how does the missing of cryptsetup-bin affect cryptsetup

Bivut Poudel
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    Which distro and version of Linux are you using or trying to install? – user68186 May 27 '22 at 15:47
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    Please clarify your specific problem or provide additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it's hard to tell exactly what you're asking. – Community Jun 01 '22 at 16:23

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cryptsetup-bin is a dependency of cryptsetup, but cryptsetup-bin does not require cryptsetup to function.

From the results of apt show cryptsetup-bin :

Description: disk encryption support - command line tools
 Cryptsetup provides an interface for configuring encryption on block
 devices (such as /home or swap partitions), using the Linux kernel
 device mapper target dm-crypt. It features integrated Linux Unified Key
 Setup (LUKS) support.

From the results of apt show cryptsetup :

Description: disk encryption support - startup scripts
 Cryptsetup provides an interface for configuring encryption on block
 devices (such as /home or swap partitions), using the Linux kernel
 device mapper target dm-crypt. It features integrated Linux Unified Key
 Setup (LUKS) support.

To install cryptsetup-bin in all currently supported versions of Ubuntu open the terminal and type:

sudo apt install cryptsetup-bin
karel
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