Installing TrueCrypt 5.1a & 6.1a On Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10 or 9.04
TrueCrypt was finally made available for Linux with the release of version 5.1a. Here’s how to install it.
**Update**
I have been made aware by Onopoc in the comments section that this same tutorial will work with TrueCrypt 6.1a as well. Simply change the name of the file in the respective spots where the exact file name is used
Installing TrueCrypt
- Open a terminal window and type: ‘wget http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads/truecrypt-5.1a-ubuntu-x86.tar.gz’
- Once that is done, type: ‘tar zxvf truecrypt-5.1a-ubuntu-x86.tar.gz’
- Now go to ‘Places‘ –> ‘Home Folder‘ and look for a file called
‘truecrypt-5.1a-setup-ubuntu-x86‘ and double click on it
- You should get a dialog box asking you what you want to do with it. Choose ‘Run in Terminal‘
- You should now see another dialog box with the option to ‘Install TrueCrypt‘ at the bottom. Choose this.
WordPress Error: Forbidden
I was recently working on an article detailing how to install TrueCrypt 5.1a on Ubuntu 8.04. I had just written another article minutes earlier, so I knew everything was fine with WordPress at that time.
This time, however, everytime I chose to Save the article, I was given an error.
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /blog/wp-admin/post.php on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
After deactivating my plugins, changing permissions to post.php and drinking a few beers, I finally found the problem.
For some reason, WordPress didn’t like the character combination of ‘wget h’. In the first step, you need to run the command ‘wget http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads/truecrypt-5.1a-ubuntu-x86.tar.gz” to download the TrueCrypt file.
I was finally able to get around it by adding a non-breaking space ( ) between the ‘wget’ and the ‘h’
Can’t Empty Trash In Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10
Seems simple enough right? Sometimes items seem to get ’stuck’ in the trash. Even though this seems like a bug, it’s actually due to the way permissions are handled on Linux (although I definitely wouldn’t call it a feature:). Here’s how to force it to empty.
Run this command from the terminal:
sudo rm -fr /home/USERNAME/.local/share/Trash/
**UPDATE**
Now that I’m running 8.10, I figured I’d check to see if the location of the Trash bin is in the same spot, and it is. The above command should work exactly the same in 8.10 as in 8.04.
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That’s it. Your trash should now be empty.
Remember, they moved the location of the trash in the newest version of Ubuntu so obviously this exact command won’t work if you have an older version. All you need to do is a little research to find the correct directory and swap that out however.
