morton

No worries at all. VeraCrypt containers created in WIndows may be opened from Linux. It's easy to create Linux live pendrive and extract VeraCrypt on it. Another option is to unlock a VeraCrypt device on Linux system level by using cryptsetup libraries.

Here some additional data to the issue: **Debian 12 ** no issue NOPASSDD in sudoers.d - absent Debian 13 no issue NOPASSDD in sudoers.d - absent Linux Mint 21.1 issue NOPASSDD in sudoers.d - present #Debian 12: $ sudo -n -l Matching Defaults entries for mf on d12c: env_reset, mail_badpass, secure_path=/usr/local/sbin\:/usr/local/bin\:/usr/sbin\:/usr/bin\:/sbin\:/bin, use_pty, timestamp_timeout=1, env_reset, timestamp_timeout=1 User mf may run the following commands on d12c: (ALL : ALL) ALL $ echo...

Here some additional data to the issue: **Debian 12 ** no issue NOPASSDD in sudoers.d - absent Debian 13 no issue NOPASSDD in sudoers.d - absent Linux Mint 21.1 issue NOPASSDD in sudoers.d - present #Debian 12: $ sudo -n -l Matching Defaults entries for mf on d12c: env_reset, mail_badpass, secure_path=/usr/local/sbin\:/usr/local/bin\:/usr/sbin\:/usr/bin\:/sbin\:/bin, use_pty, timestamp_timeout=1, env_reset, timestamp_timeout=1 User mf may run the following commands on d12c: (ALL : ALL) ALL $ echo...

1) VeraCrypt functionality is the same for both installation variants except generic installer additionally allows just unpack VeraCrypt without installation. 2a) Linux rm used in the uninstall script physically removes specified files or directories. The list of installed and removed by script files (see my comment above) is identical. 2b) apt purge do what purge does: uninstalls the package and its dependencies, removes configuration and associated files and updates the package database to reflect...

1) VeraCrypt functionality is the same for both installation variants except generic installer additionally allows just unpack VeraCrypt without installation. 2a) Linux rm used in the uninstall script physically removes specified files or directories. The list of installed and removed by script files (see my comment above) is identical. 2b) apt purge do what purge does: uninstalls the package and its dependencies, removes configuration and associated files and updates the package database to reflect...

Every Debian user knows what sudo apt install package or sudo apt-get install package does. For your information, Veracrypt is unavailable as a package in Debian's official repos. Probably every Debian user knows that pkg in the apt install command takes path, along with other package attributes. So apt install ./veracrypt or apt install /path/veracrypt will install local file taking care of dependencies in the same way as gdebi. And it is a well known fact that no major Linux distribution has VeraCrypt...

How do I know if a file is encrypted when copying to a drive? VeraCrypt doesn't provide file-level encryption, just look at the filesystem the file is copied to. For example: $ mount | grep veracrypt veracrypt on /tmp/.veracrypt_aux_mnt1 type fuse.veracrypt (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other)

VeraCrypt doesn't provide file-level encryption, just look at the filesystem the file is copied to. For example: $ mount | grep veracrypt veracrypt on /tmp/.veracrypt_aux_mnt1 type fuse.veracrypt (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other)