How To Install libisofs on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libisofs on Rocky Linux 8. libisofs is Library to create ISO 9660 disk images

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libisofs on Rocky Linux 8.

What is libisofs

Libisofs is a library to create an ISO-9660 filesystem and supports extensions like RockRidge or Joliet. It is also a full featured ISO-9660 editor, allowing you to modify an ISO image or multisession disc, including file addition or removal, change of file names and attributes etc. It supports the extension AAIP which allows to store ACLs and xattr in ISO-9660 filesystems as well. As it is linked with zlib, it supports zisofs compression, too.

We can use yum or dnf to install libisofs on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libisofs.

Install libisofs on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libisofs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libisofs

Install libisofs on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libisofs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libisofs

How To Uninstall libisofs on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the libisofs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libisofs

libisofs Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d/ff93682b22ea5725c0bee783931e165675a789
/usr/lib64/libisofs.so.6
/usr/lib64/libisofs.so.6.84.0
/usr/share/doc/libisofs
/usr/share/doc/libisofs/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libisofs/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/libisofs/README
/usr/share/licenses/libisofs
/usr/share/licenses/libisofs/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f/d2119842d430c0256f87c899958f1e22ab74d4
/usr/lib/libisofs.so.6
/usr/lib/libisofs.so.6.84.0
/usr/share/doc/libisofs
/usr/share/doc/libisofs/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libisofs/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/libisofs/README
/usr/share/licenses/libisofs
/usr/share/licenses/libisofs/COPYING

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libisofs on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.