How To Install xorriso on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xorriso on CentOS 8.
What is xorriso
Xorriso is a program which copies file objects from POSIX compliant filesystems into Rock Ridge enhanced ISO-9660 filesystems and allows session-wise manipulation of such filesystems. It can load management information of existing ISO images and it writes the session results to optical media or to filesystem objects. Vice versa xorriso is able to copy file objects out of ISO-9660 filesystems. Filesystem manipulation capabilities surpass those of mkisofs. Xorriso is especially suitable for backups, because of its high fidelity of file attribute recording and its incremental update sessions. Optical supported media DVD-RAM, BD-R and BD-RE.
We can use yum or dnf to install xorriso on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xorriso.
Install xorriso on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install xorriso using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xorriso
Install xorriso on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install xorriso using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xorriso
How To Uninstall xorriso on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the xorriso package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xorriso
xorriso Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/mkisofs
/usr/bin/osirrox
/usr/bin/xorrecord
/usr/bin/xorriso
/usr/bin/xorrisofs
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/77
/usr/lib/.build-id/77/35508179fcae000ac88e1e616a52c9fe046c78
/usr/share/info/xorrecord.info.gz
/usr/share/info/xorriso.info.gz
/usr/share/info/xorrisofs.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xorrecord.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xorriso.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xorrisofs.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xorriso on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.