The "messed up" state of zuluCrypt packages on your system is something i can not advice on how to solve because i do not know how "messed up" the situation is.
Download again this[1] package and try again,after you have extract it,you will see a whole lot more packages. Install them all with "sudo dpkg -i *.deb" command and hopefully,they should install cleanly this time. I have build them using package number and names as the default ones and hence they should be able to update more easily.
The permission problem is probably due to permission issue, open the volume with something like:
sudo zuluCrypt-cli -o -d /home/USERNAME/ filename -K `id --user`
The "messed up" state of zuluCrypt packages on your system is something i can not advice on how to solve because i do not know how "messed up" the situation is.
Download again this[1] package and try again,after you have extract it,you will see a whole lot more packages. Install them all with "sudo dpkg -i *.deb" command and hopefully,they should install cleanly this time. I have build them using package number and names as the default ones and hence they should be able to update more easily.
[1] https:/ /github. com/mhogomchung u/zuluCrypt/ releases/ download/ 5.2.0/zuluCrypt -5.2.0- ubuntu- 17.10-Artful_ Aardvark. tar.xz