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Hello,

I recently switched to Linux Mint 17. I have used Aescrypt on Windows before.

1) If I do

sudo apt-cache search aescrypt

I see some packages. Are any of these official and can they be trusted?

2) In the Linux installer it says that it comes with a GUI and the command line. Is there a way to just get teh command line version? (This is how I have always run it on Windows.)

3) If I can't/shouldn't install Aescrypt via the package manager, I need to make sure that I can uninstall Aescrypt in the future. If I download and run the installer provided, how can I uninstall (i.e. completely remove) Aescrypt (I noticed that someone has already asked this question, but I wanted to ask it as well)

4) It might just be me, but I haven't been able to download the pdf file containing the user guide. Is it just me?

1) I have no idea what that software is. Somebody may have packed up our AES Crypt and published it. It is free software, after all, but it's not directly from the authors
2) Yeah, I only use the command-line tool myself. You have to build it using GCC. It's simple to do. Grab the source code for Linux from this page: https://www.aescrypt.com/download/
3) If you build from the source code, typing "make" will create two binaries: aescrypt and aescrypt_keygen. The latter is not strictly necessary, but a useful tool. You can type "make install" or copy them into /usr/local/bin/. If you later want to remove them, you need only to delete those files. There is a "make install", which will put them in /usr/bin for you. I think there is a "make uninstall" which would remove them. Six months down the road, you likely don't want to dig out the source to remove the files. All you have to do is remove aescrypt and aescrypt_keygen from whichever directories they're in (either /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin).
4) This one? https://www.aescrypt.com/documentation/ ... 0Guide.pdf If so, it works for me. However, if I try to open it in Firefox on Linux Mint 16, I see blank pages with a spinner looking like it's trying to load. It just hangs there. However, if I right-click and download it, I can open it in whatever the default PDF viewer is on Linux Mint 16. I think Firefox's internal PDF viewer has issues.

Thanks for the answers. I succesfully managed to install the commandline version on Linux.