How To Install squashfuse on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install squashfuse
on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install squashfuse.
Install squashfuse on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install squashfuse
using yum
by running the following command:
Install squashfuse 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.
After updating yum database, We can install squashfuse
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall squashfuse on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the squashfuse
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install squashfuse
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.