How To Install archivemount on Fedora 34

archivemount is FUSE based filesystem for mounting compressed archives

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install archivemount on Fedora 34.

What is archivemount

Archivemount is a piece of glue code between libarchive and FUSE. It can be used to mount a (possibly compressed) archive (as in .tar.gz or .tar.bz2) and use it like an ordinary filesystem.

We can use yum or dnf to install archivemount on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install archivemount.

Install archivemount on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install archivemount

Install archivemount on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install archivemount

How To Uninstall archivemount on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove archivemount

archivemount Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/archivemount
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/58
/usr/lib/.build-id/58/3526ef0a92735fd2b7edf16de69b9a4749da8c
/usr/share/doc/archivemount
/usr/share/doc/archivemount/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/archivemount/README
/usr/share/licenses/archivemount
/usr/share/licenses/archivemount/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/archivemount.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install archivemount on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.