Run ecryptfs from live USB (Solved)

I am trying to recover an encrypted home folder from a broken system. I found several posts on this, referring to running ecryptfs-recover-private from a live session. Trying this using a 18.04 on a USB flash drive but ecryptfs is not installed. Output from terminal:

sudo apt-get install -y ecryptfs-utils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package ecryptfs-utils is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'ecryptfs-utils' has no installation candidate

As an alternate is it possible to copy the entire encryped folder over to another hard drive before fresh install of 18.04 and then recover it?

1 Answer

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Then add universe on the end of each repository line (except for the deb cdrom line).

You can then run sudo apt update && sudo apt install ecryptfs-utils to install the package.