How To Install geteltorito on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install geteltorito in Fedora 36. geteltorito is El Torito boot image extractor

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install geteltorito on Fedora 36.

What is `geteltorito`

call example The perl-script will extract the initial/default boot image from a CD if existent. It will not extract any of other possibly existing bootimages that are allowed by the El Torito standard. The imagedata are written to STDOUT, all other information is written to STDERR (eg type and size of image). If you want to write the image to a file instead of STDOUT you can specify the filename wanted on the commandline using option -o .

We can use yum or dnf to install geteltorito on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install geteltorito.

Install geteltorito on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install geteltorito

Install geteltorito on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install geteltorito

How To Uninstall geteltorito on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove geteltorito

geteltorito Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/geteltorito
/usr/share/doc/geteltorito
/usr/share/doc/geteltorito/README
/usr/share/licenses/geteltorito
/usr/share/licenses/geteltorito/gpl.txt

References

geteltorito website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install geteltorito on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).