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I have downloaded Truecrypt 7.1a 64 bit and extracted the file in the archive manager. I have put ./truecrypt-7.1a-setup-x64 into the terminal but it says no such file or directory exists. I have tried Truecrypt 7.2 as well, but the same happens.

What am I doing wrong, can someone take me through it?

gman
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    Did you change to the directory where it's extracted? Also DO NOT USE 7.2. Besides, cryptsetup works with most Truecrypt volumes, and there's also Veracrypt. – cylgalad Dec 14 '15 at 10:10
  • I'm not even sure how to change directory or what that means. Forgive me i'm really new to ubuntu. what is cryptsetup? – rasputin Dec 14 '15 at 22:31
  • I copied and pasted 'cryptsetup' into the terminal, something did happen..... and i gave it permission to use some space on the hard disk. I can't find the new program however. Can someone help? – rasputin Dec 15 '15 at 12:36
  • This explains how to use cryptsetup with TrueCrypt containers or volumes: Decrypt TrueCrypt containers using dm-crypt N.B.: This was written for 12.04, on 14.04 you don't need the PPA. – LiveWireBT Dec 15 '15 at 13:56
  • Thankyou guys for all your advice. Im still struggling unfortunately. I have looked through some of the other questions dealing with this and other people don't seem to have the problem im having, and can load the software quite easily. i have looked at the link 'Decrypt Truecrypt containers using dm-crypt' . and to be honest i just dont understand much of what it says. Perhaps another question i should ask – rasputin Dec 15 '15 at 17:16
  • is ' could someone recommend an idiots guide to Ubuntu that can give me a basic understanding of it ;) – rasputin Dec 15 '15 at 17:18
  • I just want to be able to encrypt hard drives and memory sticks to protect personal data. Its proving more difficult than i hoped it would be. – rasputin Dec 15 '15 at 17:24
  • Use a file manager like nautilus to extract truecrypt-7.1a-linux-x64.tar.gz (right-click it and on the menu choose "extract"), then you can double-click the resulting truecrypt-7.1a-setup-x64. Or start learning how to use the shell and the whole power of cryptsetup! Besides, if you want to encrypt hard drives and memory sticks for use in Linux-only you'd better use the Linux tools instead of Truecrypt which is better if you want something Windows can use. – cylgalad Dec 16 '15 at 09:25
  • Double-clicking on the extracted file opens a new window, after some time loading, it stops and says there is a problem. that the file contains some invalid characters, that if I continue editing the file I could corrupt the document, it says I could try and use another encoding, but that ends the same way. – rasputin Dec 17 '15 at 16:08

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I guess you solved it by now, but just in case, here is the easy way:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stefansundin/truecrypt
sudo apt update
sudo apt install truecrypt

Works fine for me on 16.04LTS 64bit

mivk
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