How To Install dislocker on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dislocker
on CentOS 7.
What is 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). The file name where the BitLocker encrypted partition will be decrypted needs to be given. This may take a long time, depending on the size of the encrypted partition. But afterward, once the partition is decrypted, the access to the NTFS partition will be faster than with FUSE. Another thing to think about is the size of the disk (same size as the volume that is tried to be decrypted). Nevertheless, once the partition is decrypted, the file can be mounted as any NTFS partition and won’t have any link to the original BitLocker partition.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install dislocker
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dislocker.
Install dislocker on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install dislocker
using yum
by running the following command:
Install dislocker on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install dislocker
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall dislocker on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the dislocker
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dislocker
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.