How To Install libisofs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libisofs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libisofs.x86_64 is Library to create ISO 9660 disk images

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libisofs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libisofs.x86_64`

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 to install libisofs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libisofs.x86_64.

Install libisofs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libisofs.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libisofs.x86_64

How To Uninstall libisofs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libisofs.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libisofs.x86_64

libisofs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libisofs.so.6
/usr/lib64/libisofs.so.6.64.0
/usr/share/doc/libisofs-1.2.8
/usr/share/doc/libisofs-1.2.8/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libisofs-1.2.8/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libisofs-1.2.8/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/libisofs-1.2.8/README

References

libisofs.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libisofs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.