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JanErik

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Veracrypt without GUI/X libraries

I have a headless server and wish to install Veracrypt. It does seem to want to pull in a substantial amount of X libraries. Is there anyway to avoid this? E.g. like the emacs-nox package. Under Gentoo I have been compiling veracrypt with the -X USE flag so it is certainly possible to compile without GUI.

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jasonwryan

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Re: Veracrypt without GUI/X libraries

https://github.com/veracrypt/VeraCrypt/issues/221

Look at tcplay instead.

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Slithery

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Re: Veracrypt without GUI/X libraries

Welcome to the forums JanErik

You can build a version without a GUI by adding NOGUI=1 to the relevant make sections of the PKGBUILD.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Build_System
https://www.veracrypt.fr/code/VeraCrypt/tree/README.md

The above is made redundant by jasonwryan's post.

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progandy

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Re: Veracrypt without GUI/X libraries

If you are set on veracrypt, It might be possible to compile a minimal wxwidgets version that provides no GUI features or only a directfb gui.
https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/ … /docs/base
https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/ … nstall.txt

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JanErik

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Re: Veracrypt without GUI/X libraries

My volumes are old TrueCrypt though and I see Cryptsetup nowadays supports them so I might go with that for now.

mxfm

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Re: Veracrypt without GUI/X libraries

Depending on what exactly in veracrypt you use, you can possibly work without it. For example, veracrypt defaults on cryptsetup, so you can use it directly.

P.S. In fact this is how I dropped veracrypt in favor of cryptsetup: after some update it stopped working...

Last edited by mxfm (2018-01-11 19:11:09)