How To Install xmount on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install xmount in Fedora 36. xmount is A on-the-fly convert for multiple hard disk image types

Introduction

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

What is `xmount`

xmount allows you to convert on-the-fly between multiple input and output hard disk image types. xmount creates a virtual file system using FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) that contains a virtual representation of the input image. The virtual representation can be in raw DD, VirtualBox’s virtual disk file format or in VmWare’s VMDK file format. Input images can be raw DD, EWF (Expert Witness Compression Format) or AFF (Advanced Forensic Format) files. In addition, xmount also supports virtual write access to the output files that is redirected to a cache file. This makes it possible to boot acquired hard disk images using QEMU, KVM, VirtualBox, VmWare, or alike.

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

Install xmount 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 xmount using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xmount

Install xmount 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 xmount using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xmount

How To Uninstall xmount on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove xmount

xmount Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/xmount
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f/4338ca30b7966461a0b0d9c54ddd9a3f280915
/usr/lib/.build-id/40
/usr/lib/.build-id/40/13abda09a46004cc5915219e6029a89897fc9b
/usr/lib/.build-id/58
/usr/lib/.build-id/58/d982b56c53a2178a1440d6d34c795f4cd6e11a
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d/d37554de8bce5b60556bab6cecf4db21ba887d
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9/775b1fe63159b9ac0c16358ede9454ebe49a7b
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6/862e94f2b267240eab772af59e25c76d6d0d2a
/usr/lib/.build-id/d8
/usr/lib/.build-id/d8/fa194fa7768b82e605005171d06c08ed0bdc5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/de
/usr/lib/.build-id/de/ae1846913381edfccbd46c1d1e433150e5f008
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed/bb1f7091af9a60a4218e34b1be17716283079e
/usr/lib64/xmount
/usr/lib64/xmount/libxmount_input_aaff.so
/usr/lib64/xmount/libxmount_input_aewf.so
/usr/lib64/xmount/libxmount_input_aff.so
/usr/lib64/xmount/libxmount_input_ewf.so
/usr/lib64/xmount/libxmount_input_raw.so
/usr/lib64/xmount/libxmount_morphing_combine.so
/usr/lib64/xmount/libxmount_morphing_raid.so
/usr/lib64/xmount/libxmount_morphing_unallocated.so
/usr/share/doc/xmount
/usr/share/doc/xmount/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/xmount/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/xmount/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/xmount/README
/usr/share/doc/xmount/ROADMAP
/usr/share/doc/xmount/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/xmount
/usr/share/licenses/xmount/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/xmount.1.gz

References

xmount website

Summary

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