Installing VeraCrypt on ARM¶

Note

This article targets distributions based on debian stretch. Details may vary with different versions.

Here’s a quick summary of the steps I use to install VeraCrypt 1.21 command-line tools on the Raspberry Pi and other ARM-based distributions.

On some distributions, libwxbase must be installed:
```
sudo apt -y install libwxbase3.0-0
```

Download the source tarball:

wget https://launchpad.net/veracrypt/trunk/1.21/+download/veracrypt-1.21-raspbian-setup.tar.bz2

Decompress the tarball:

bunzip2 veracrypt-1.21-raspbian-setup.tar.bz2

Extract the tarball contents:

tar -xpvf veracrypt-1.21-raspbian-setup.tar

Verify the installer binary permissions include executable:

% ls -l
total 14312
[...]
-rw-r--r--  1 bob bob 7311360 Jul 16 13:37 veracrypt-1.21-raspbian-setup.tar
-rwxr-xr-x  1 bob bob 2988876 Jul 16 13:32 veracrypt-1.21-setup-console-armv7
-rwxr-xr-x  1 bob bob 4314513 Jul 16 13:32 veracrypt-1.21-setup-gui-armv7

Recent versions of VeraCrypt ship with the installer set to executable. If necessary, change installer binary permissions to include executable:
```
chmod +x ./veracrypt-1.21-setup-console-armv7
```
Install the binary:
```
./veracrypt-1.21-setup-console-armv7
```

Accept the license agreement and enter your password at the sudo prompt to complete installation.

Contact and feedback¶

You can find me on Reddit where I lurk in many of the raspberry pi-related subreddits.

Last updated on Mar 28, 2021