How To Install squashfuse on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install squashfuse in Fedora 36. squashfuse is FUSE filesystem to mount squashfs archives

Introduction

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

What is `squashfuse`

Squashfuse lets you mount SquashFS archives in user-space. It supports almost all features of the SquashFS format, yet is still fast and memory-efficient. SquashFS is an efficiently compressed, read-only storage format. Support for it has been built into the Linux kernel since 2009. It is very common on Live CDs and embedded Linux distributions.

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

Install squashfuse 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 squashfuse using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install squashfuse

Install squashfuse 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 squashfuse using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install squashfuse

How To Uninstall squashfuse on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove squashfuse

squashfuse Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/squashfuse
/usr/bin/squashfuse_ll
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/37
/usr/lib/.build-id/37/9a4393f2a3111c391be46cd87829cff50581c1
/usr/lib/.build-id/37/e44556e3ca4eb26efd70817dcf7417ade2e84b
/usr/share/licenses/squashfuse
/usr/share/licenses/squashfuse/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/squashfuse.1.gz

References

squashfuse website

Summary

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