How To Install gmountiso on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gmountiso
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is gmountiso
gmountiso is:
Gmount-iso is a small tool written using PyGTK and Glade. It allows you to easily mount your cd images. This is a frontend to the ‘mount -o loop -t iso9660 foo.iso /mountpoint’ command
Homepage: http://www.crans.ens-cachan.fr/Syst%C3%A8meLinux/GmountIso
There are three methods to install gmountiso
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gmountiso Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gmountiso
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gmountiso
Install gmountiso Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gmountiso
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gmountiso
Install gmountiso Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install gmountiso
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gmountiso
How To Uninstall gmountiso on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the gmountiso
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gmountiso
Uninstall gmountiso And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gmountiso
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gmountiso
Remove gmountiso Configurations and Data
To remove gmountiso
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gmountiso
Remove gmountiso configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gmountiso
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gmountiso
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gmountiso
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.