I downloaded VeraCrypt (maybe from sourceforge?) years ago, and the installer was full of a bunch of shit I had to decline.
I've never experienced something similar, but since it is all open source you could opt to download the source code and build it yourself if you wanted.
Are partitions encrypted with VeraCrypt compatible with LUKS/cryptsetup?
I've never tried it, since I pretty much exclusively use LUKS for full disk encryption and use VeraCrypt for individual files and containers, but a quick search suggests that cryptsetup will indeed open TrueCrypt and VeraCrypt containers: