How To Install genisoimage on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install genisoimage
on CentOS 7.
What is genisoimage
The genisoimage program is used as a pre-mastering program; i.e., it generates the ISO9660 file-system. Genisoimage takes a snapshot of a given directory tree and generates a binary image of the tree which will correspond to an ISO9660 file-system when written to a block device. Genisoimage is used for writing CD-ROMs, and includes support for creating boot-able El Torito CD-ROMs. Install the genisoimage package if you need a program for writing CD-ROMs.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install genisoimage
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install genisoimage.
Install genisoimage on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install genisoimage
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install genisoimage
Install genisoimage on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install genisoimage
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install genisoimage
How To Uninstall genisoimage on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the genisoimage
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove genisoimage
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install genisoimage
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.