How To Install fuse-dislocker on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fuse-dislocker on CentOS 8.
What is fuse-dislocker
Dislocker has been designed to read BitLocker encrypted partitions (“drives”) under a Linux system. The driver has the capability to read/write partitions encrypted using Microsoft Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 (AES-CBC, AES-XTS, 128 or 256 bits, with or without the Elephant diffuser, encrypted partitions); BitLocker-To-Go encrypted partitions (USB/FAT32 partitions). A mount point needs to be given to dislocker-fuse. Once keys are decrypted, a file named ‘dislocker-file’ appears into this provided mount point. This file is a virtual NTFS partition, it can be mounted as any NTFS partition and then reading from it or writing to it is possible.
We can use yum or dnf to install fuse-dislocker on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fuse-dislocker.
Install fuse-dislocker on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install fuse-dislocker using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fuse-dislocker
Install fuse-dislocker on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install fuse-dislocker using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fuse-dislocker
How To Uninstall fuse-dislocker on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fuse-dislocker package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fuse-dislocker
fuse-dislocker Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/dislocker-fuse
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/43
/usr/lib/.build-id/43/b9a4b588aa57b376d014ba0dcb8c891e1d5da0
/usr/share/man/man1/dislocker-fuse.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fuse-dislocker on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.