Right click to encrypt files in Ubuntu 9.10

November 3rd, 2009 | Categories: Linux, Open Source | Tags:

I’ve just installed Ubuntu version 9.10 (Karmic Koala) from scratch on my new work machine and noticed that you can no longer right click on a file to encrypt it. The functionality is still there – it just isn’t available by default. To get it just install the seahorse-plugins package as follows

sudo apt-get install seahorse-plugins

I did a reboot to get the changes to take but there is probably a less drastic way of getting the job done.

  1. Michael
    November 3rd, 2009 at 18:13
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    maybe a logout is enough

  2. November 3rd, 2009 at 18:20
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    Probably…I never tried it as I needed to restart anyway.
    Cheers,
    Mike

  3. Gregor
    November 20th, 2009 at 07:07
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    Just tried that and a logout is enough

  4. November 20th, 2009 at 11:08
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    Thanks for letting us know Gregor.

  5. behnam
    December 4th, 2009 at 11:20
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    tnx man

  6. Primefalcon
    December 26th, 2009 at 22:10
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    After installing the plugins the following command will do in a terminal

    killall nautilus; nohup nautilus

    That one line when copied and pasted into a terminal simply closes and reopens nautilus, which is your desktop management software, after doing that you will be able to see encrypt and such in the right click just fine

  7. Primefalcon
    December 26th, 2009 at 22:12
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    Actually just copy and paste the following and it’ll install the plugins and restart nautilus and everything for you all in the one go

    sudo apt-get install seahorse-plugins; killall nautilus; nohup nautilus &

  8. Primefalcon
    December 26th, 2009 at 22:14
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    ahh just use the command

    sudo apt-get install seahorse-plugins; killall nautilus; nohup nautilus &

    that’ll install the plugins as well as restart nautilus

  9. Peluso
    November 23rd, 2010 at 13:52
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    Thanks, worked great!

    sudo apt-get install seahorse-plugins; killall nautilus; nohup nautilus &