How to Install Picocrypt Encryption Tool on Ubuntu Linux

Picocrypt is a free and open source secure encryption tool for Linux, Windows and MacOS. Using this application you can encrypt your files easily. It uses the XChaCha20 cipher and the Argon2id key derivation function to provide a high level of security to your files. It comes with build-in password generator, keyfiles support, paranoid mode, comments section, Reed-Solomon support, split output files into chunks, compress files and many more.

Picocrypt Encryption Tool

Download Picocrypt [Windows, Linux, MacOS]

Install Picocrypt on Ubuntu

Download Picocrypt in the .deb package file from the above download link and save it on your Downloads folder. Open the terminal application (ctrl+alt+t) and run below Picocrypt apt install command.

sudo apt install ./Downloads/Picocrypt.deb

You can open it using below command or via the Show Apps Ubuntu application menu.

picocrypt-gui

Install Picocrypt via Flatpak:

You can also install Picocrypt via below flatpak install command.

flatpak install flathub io.github.picocrypt.Picocrypt

And open it using below command.

flatpak run io.github.picocrypt.Picocrypt

Note: If you don’t have then install flatpak and flathub on your system first and restart your system.

Also Read:  expr Command in Linux

Install flatpak and flathub

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