I am new to not only Opensuse but also Linux in general. I installed 13.1 Gnome 64 bit. Windows failed to respond after a severe hardware failure. The hardware was fixed, but left me with no operating system.
I had previously been running system encryption, and I wish to resume this with Opensuse.
After many failed attempts to install from the package available on the site, and searching the forums for help, I must say I am totally lost as to why it won’t install.
Here is the error message I get when gedit opens the file:
There was a problem opening the file “/home/user/Downloads/truecrypt-7.1a-setup-x64”.
The file you opened has some invalid characters. If you continue editing this file you could corrupt this document.
You can also choose another character encoding and try again.
I have tried using different character endcoding and even used the modprobe loop command in my kernel. Alas, to no avail. Is it actually realcrypt that I am supposed to install? I had seen that mentioned in a subject line, but it was not elaborated on.
Like I said, I am new to all this, and as I work out getting the system to where I want it I am hoping to learn much. If there is a link to a 13.1 specific package I haven’t been able to find it.
Probably not much help here but the file is binary which is why it wont open in gedit. Are you getting a segmentation fault and a warning ‘Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font’? If so, I ran into the same issue but so far have been unsuccessful in resolving. If I figure it out, I’ll repost.
For what it’s worth:
I am running openSUSE 13.1 with the KDE 4.11 environment, and had no trouble installing Truecrypt twice in the last few days.
I have it installed on my desktop.
When I extracted the tar-ball from the gz-file and tried to install it NOW (with a Truecrypt installation already present), I get the same or very similar messages you are reporting, they appear at the top of the window that pops up. That indicates a collision that was absent previously.
One possible explanation is that you have an incomplete installation or installation files floating around your files and directories.
One possible remedy is to find those files, delete or uninstall any residues of your previous attempts and attempt a clean reinstallation.
When I did my installations, in both instances it worked without a single complaint. I was done in less than two minutes. You should get these windows upon clicking on the file truecrypt-7.1a-setup-x64: