TrueCrypt 7 Debian Packaging

Last updated: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:13

TrueCrypt provides sources and pre-built debs for Ubuntu (which work fine under Debian), but not the Debian packaging itself¹. I strongly dislike installing debs for which I can't get the source and build them myself. For this reason, I've made my own Debian packaging. The packaging itself is licensed under the GPLv2. It's really only intended for personal use but others may find it useful as well.

Note that although this packaging of TrueCrypt for Debian-based systems seems to be being actively maintained, it's for version 4.3 of TrueCrypt.

The tar.bz2 only includes the 'debian' folder. You'll need to download the the actual TrueCrypt sources from truecrypt.org. There are a few instructions included, but they assume familiarity with tools like dpkg-buildpackage. If you don't know what that is, you're probably better off installing the Ubuntu deb from truecrypt.org. If you find these files useful, please send me a message.

Packaging for TrueCrypt 7.1 (last updated 18/12/2011):

README.Debian

README.source

truecrypt_packaging-7.1-1.tar.bz2

truecrypt_packaging-7.1-1.tar.bz2.sig (OpenPGP Signature)

Packaging for TrueCrypt 7.0a (last updated 18/09/2010):

truecrypt_packaging-7.0a-1.tar.bz2

truecrypt_packaging-7.0a-1.tar.bz2.sig (OpenPGP Signature)

Packaging for TrueCrypt 7.0 (last updated 25/08/2010):

truecrypt_packaging-7.0-2.tar.bz2

truecrypt_packaging-7.0-2.tar.bz2.sig (OpenPGP Signature)

Packaging for TrueCrypt 6.3a (last updated 24/11/2009):