How To Install squashfs-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install squashfs-tools.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. squashfs-tools.x86_64 is Utility for the creation of squashfs filesystems

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install squashfs-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `squashfs-tools.x86_64`

Squashfs is a highly compressed read-only filesystem for Linux. This package contains the utilities for manipulating squashfs filesystems.

We can use yum to install squashfs-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install squashfs-tools.x86_64.

Install squashfs-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install squashfs-tools.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install squashfs-tools.x86_64

How To Uninstall squashfs-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the squashfs-tools.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove squashfs-tools.x86_64

squashfs-tools.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/sbin/mksquashfs
/usr/sbin/unsquashfs
/usr/share/doc/squashfs-tools-4.3
/usr/share/doc/squashfs-tools-4.3/README
/usr/share/man/man1/mksquashfs.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/unsquashfs.1.gz

References

squashfs-tools.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install squashfs-tools.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.