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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install squashfuse using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install squashfuse
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install squashfuse using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install squashfuse
How To Uninstall squashfuse on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the squashfuse package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove squashfuse
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install squashfuse on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
