Month of June, 2007

We are going to compile TrueCrypt from source so first grab TrueCrypt's source code.

Extract the source code and navigate to the Linux folder

tar xfz truecrypt-4.3a-source-code.tar.gz
cd truecrypt-4.3a-source-code
cd Linux

Truecrypt needs to compile a kernel module during the build process. Unfortunately the kernel headers included with Fedora 7 (in the kernel-devel package) are missing the dm.h header file which is needed for compiling the kernel module.

We need to download the source RPM for the kernel and install it. I am using the release version of Fedora 7 so the rpm command would be...