Truecrypt installed but will not start

[SecretCode]

It says so here as I mentioned before http://modifyubuntu.com/ under useful programs

Oh I see - but that's just one person's site, not an official Ubuntu recommendation

[michel]

It looked quite "official" :-)

Michel

[SteveRiley]

I use truecrypt to save personal documents like passport scans, etc... in Dropbox and professional / legal papers on the server at work.

Oh, OK. Sounds reasonable. The only reason I ask is that I feel it's important for folks to think through why they want to use encryption, which it appears you've done. I've seen too many instances where people chose to encrypt their entire home directory simply because the installer offered that option, then they subsequently lose their key. Encryption is not risk-free.

It says so here as I mentioned before http://modifyubuntu.com/ under useful programs

Wow. I've never seen that site before, and yeah, I can see how it might be viewed as official. The lack of an "About" page is worrisome.

[michel]

So any ideas on why the 64 bit version could not install?

Michel

[SecretCode]

Most likely reason is you don't have a 64 bit OS.

Try this:

To check you have a 64 bit OS, what is the output of

cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep lm

[michel]

I just installed Kubuntu 64 bit a week ago. But here you go:

michel@michel-Satellite-L650:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep lm
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm arat dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm arat dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm arat dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm arat dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid

Michel

[SecretCode]

OK, it's not that

But the same download works on my machine so I'm not sure what it could be.