installing VeraCrypt

To install from the VeraCrypt website release, use wget -P /tmp https://launchpad.net/veracrypt/trunk/1.23/+download/veracrypt-1.23-setup.tar.bz2 to download the Linux archive file, then use tar xvf /tmp/veracrypt-1.23-setup.tar.bz2 -C /tmp to extract its contents to /tmp. Navigate to /tmp with cd /tmp, then use ./veracrypt-1.23-setup-gui-x64 to install VeraCrypt.

To install from Ubuntu PPA, use sudo add-apt-repository ppa:unit193/encryption -y && sudo apt update && sudo apt install veracrypt -y.

Personal experience

The Ubuntu PPA initially worked in Kubuntu 17.10, but then stopped working.

licensing

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prior work

• The bulk of the installation script for the Ubuntu PPA was introduced to me by an answer on Ask Ubuntu by s3m3n.
• The bulk of the installation script for the VeraCrypt website release was introduced to me by an answer on Ask Ubuntu by Pawel Debski.
• The method of extracting an archive into a specified directory was introduced to me by an answer on Ask Ubuntu by Wesley Rice.