Encrypted Live-USB

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I’m trying to create an encrypted Live-USB of antiX-17_386-base.iso. In two different laptops with antiX-17-base installed, the Live-USB Maker gives me the same error:

:Could not read words file /usr/share/dict/words

Normal mode option works fine.

• This topic was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by andfree.
• This topic was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by andfree.

[Anonymous]

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you can:
dpkg-query -S /usr/share/dict/words
to determine whether an already installed package is (was) expected to provide /usr/share/dict/words
If you identify which package, reinstall that package and check whether the missing file is now present.
(If still not present following reinstall, merits a followup bug report)

If you cannot identify the package via dpkg-query, sudo apt-get install apt-file
read the apt-file manpage
use apt-file to determine which package would provide /usr/share/dict/words
sudo apt-get install themissingpackage

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Thank you for helping me.

$ dpkg-query -S /usr/share/dict/words
diversion by dictionaries-common from: /usr/share/dict/words
diversion by dictionaries-common to: /usr/share/dict/words.pre-dictionaries-common

Does this help to identify the package?

[Anonymous]

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yes.
Installing “dictionaries-common” package should resolve the “can’t find words file” error.
(FWIW, live-usb-maker uses that words file to generate a suggested passphrase when you choose to apply encryption.)

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Anonymous wrote:

Installing “dictionaries-common” package should resolve the “can’t find words file” error.

It seems to be already installed:

$ sudo apt-get install dictionaries-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
dictionaries-common is already the newest version (1.27.2).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

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Here it looks like this

helga@antix1:~
$ dpkg-query -S /usr/share/dict/words
Umleitung durch dictionaries-common von: /usr/share/dict/words
Umleitung durch dictionaries-common zu: /usr/share/dict/words.pre-dictionaries-common
wamerican: /usr/share/dict/words

You maybe could look if wamerican is installed.

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sorry, andfree, I’m not using encyrption (have never used/tested that live-usb-maker feature) and I assumed it would use dictionaries-common if no localized dictionary is installed. I reviewed the code and see that Caprea is correct, the use of the encryption feature depends on “wamerican” ~~ live-usb-maker does not consult any a localized dictionary.

At this point, I’m uncertain whether both “wamerican” and “dictionaries-common” are required (I suspect the latter is not needed) so, try:
sudo apt-get purge dictionaries-common
sudo apt-get install wamerican
then launch live-usb-maker.

If no errors, we’ll know dictionaries-common is in fact not required.
If you still encounter an error message, install dictionaries-common again before retrying live-usb-maker.

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Anonymous wrote:

At this point, I’m uncertain whether both “wamerican” and “dictionaries-common” are required (I suspect the latter is not needed) so, try:
sudo apt-get purge dictionaries-common
sudo apt-get install wamerican
then launch live-usb-maker.

If no errors, we’ll know dictionaries-common is in fact not required.

No errors, so dictionaries-common seems to not be required for this. On the other hand, removing dictionaries-common also removed some more packages (among them: abiword, midori, sylpheed; more info in the attached terminal output).

Thanks to both of you for the help.

Attachments:

1. terminal-output.txt

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I’d like to ask something more. When I boot from the laptop’s hard disk, how can I gain access to the encrypted usb flash disk storage?

[Anonymous]

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? websearch “linux mount encrypted volume”

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I suspect either putting it on /etc/fstab as an encrypted volume or have adequate software to mount encrypted volumes, like by clicking them to mount on a filemanager.
The problem with fstab is it may create an error and slow down booting when the volume is disconnected, physically, but there is a certain degree of safety to be asked for a passphrase to unlock it before networking goes up.

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Anonymous wrote:

? websearch “linux mount encrypted volume”

Thanks for the indication. This did the job:

$ udisksctl unlock -b /dev/sdb2
Passphrase: 
Unlocked /dev/sdb2 as /dev/dm-0.
yyy@antix1:~
$ udisksctl mount -b /dev/dm-0
Mounted /dev/dm-0 at /media/yyy/antiX-Live-usb.

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