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Ubuntu: The file content is encrypted, but currently not supported

 in GNU/Linux  tagged 7zip / encrypted / password / ubuntu by

While trying to extract a password protected/encrypted 7-Zip archive on a fresh Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, we got the following error:

An error occurred while extracting files. The file content is encrypted, but currently not supported.

To fix the problem, we just installed the p7zip-full package using the apt command.

sudo apt-get install p7zip-full;

After that, we were prompted as expected to input the decryption password and we were able to extract the archive.

Below is the information of the package that was retrieved by apt info.

sudo apt info p7zip-full
[sudo] password for bob: 
Package: p7zip-full
Version: 16.02+dfsg-7build1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Source: p7zip
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]>
Original-Maintainer: Robert Luberda <[email protected]>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 4887 kB
Depends: p7zip (= 16.02+dfsg-7build1), libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5)
Suggests: p7zip-rar
Breaks: p7zip (<< 15.09+dfsg-3~)
Replaces: p7zip (<< 15.09+dfsg-3~)
Homepage: http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/
Task: kubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-full, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop
Download-Size: 1187 kB
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: http://cy.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages
Description: 7z and 7za file archivers with high compression ratio
 p7zip is the Unix command-line port of 7-Zip, a file archiver that
 handles the 7z format which features very high compression ratios.
 .
 p7zip-full provides utilities to pack and unpack 7z archives within
 a shell or using a GUI (such as Ark, File Roller or Nautilus).
 .
 Installing p7zip-full allows File Roller to use the very efficient 7z
 compression format for packing and unpacking files and directories.
 Additionally, it provides the 7z and 7za commands.
 .
 List of supported formats:
   - Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, XZ and TAR
   - Unpacking only: APM, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DEB, DMG, FAT,
     HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, LZMA2, MBR, MSI, MSLZ, NSIS, NTFS, RAR (only
     if non-free p7zip-rar package is installed), RPM, SquashFS, UDF,
     VHD, WIM, XAR and Z.
 .
 The dependent package, p7zip, provides 7zr, a light version of 7za,
 and p7zip, a gzip-like wrapper around 7zr.

Lubuntu LVM Encrypted

 in GNU/Linux  tagged encrypted / lubuntu / lvm / lvm2 / lxde / swap / swapoff / ubuntu by

While trying to setup a lubuntu GNU/Linux that would use an encrypted LVM file-system we run into several problems that should have not been there.
For example, the installer would not continue as swap memory was not encrypted and it was blocking the operation.
An other issue was that the LVM support package was not installed by default although it is needed by the installer.

Our solution requires an active internet connection so that you can install the lvm2 package.

Methodology

After booting into the live session, before we started the installation process, we opened a terminal from the main menu (Start Menu) and executed the following two commands:


sudo apt-get install lvm2 -y;

sudo swapoff --all;

These two commands disabled all swap (so that we do not get the error that swap is not encrypted) and it installed the lvm2 package that is needed by the installer to create our LVM setup.

The following video presents the full successful installation procedure by making the changes before starting the procedure.

The next video, shows our attempts to fix the installation after encountering the errors instead of fixing them beforehand.