Using Live cli, i did "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ubiquity", then ran the old Ubiquity installer, with which i can select encryption. However...
Three times i tried this, & 3x Ubiquity crashed prior to completing the installation. Each time was with the option ticked to encrypt /home [maybe it might work without this, but that's useless coz then i might as well just use Calamares]. 2X was with /sda [=MBR] selected for bootloader location, & 1X was with /sda1 [= /] selected... still crashed. Net effect is that so far Maui2 cannot be clean-installed (if i want /home encrypted ...which i DO].
This was in a VB VM in my Maui2 [from Maui1] Tower, with which i was attempting a "dry run" prior to [possibly] converting my Lappy from single-boot Mint 18 Xfce, to dual-boot Mint18 + Maui2. Back when Tower still ran Mint 17.3 KDE4, i "test-drove" Maui1 via several VB VMs, using Ubiquity, with encrypted /home, & bootloader location /sda1 [= /]; none of these hassles occurred then [that is, after the original Ubiquity bug was fixed that caused a black screen after boot, if /home was encrypted during installation].
Three times i tried this, & 3x Ubiquity crashed prior to completing the installation. Each time was with the option ticked to encrypt /home [maybe it might work without this, but that's useless coz then i might as well just use Calamares]. 2X was with /sda [=MBR] selected for bootloader location, & 1X was with /sda1 [= /] selected... still crashed. Net effect is that so far Maui2 cannot be clean-installed (if i want /home encrypted ...which i DO].
This was in a VB VM in my Maui2 [from Maui1] Tower, with which i was attempting a "dry run" prior to [possibly] converting my Lappy from single-boot Mint 18 Xfce, to dual-boot Mint18 + Maui2. Back when Tower still ran Mint 17.3 KDE4, i "test-drove" Maui1 via several VB VMs, using Ubiquity, with encrypted /home, & bootloader location /sda1 [= /]; none of these hassles occurred then [that is, after the original Ubiquity bug was fixed that caused a black screen after boot, if /home was encrypted during installation].