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archivemount


Information about the package, archivemount, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The archivemount package is designed for, FUSE based filesystem for mounting compressed archives.


Package Name:

archivemount

Summary:

FUSE based filesystem for mounting compressed archives

Description:

Archivemount is a piece of glue code between libarchive and FUSE. It can be used to mount a (possibly compressed) archive (as in .tar.gz or .tar.bz2) and use it like an ordinary filesystem.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

0.8.1

Release:

2.el6

Size:

34 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

LGPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for archivemount


Control the archivemount package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install archivemount

This command will install archivemount on the server.

yum remove archivemount

This command will un-install archivemount on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove archivemount, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove archivemount

This command will un-install archivemount on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove archivemount when using the -y flag.

yum update archivemount

This command will update archivemount to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove archivemount, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update archivemount

This command will update archivemount to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove archivemount when using the -y flag.

yum info archivemount

This command will show you core information about the archivemount package.

yum deplist archivemount

This command will show you the dependencies for archivemount. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update archivemount

This command will check if there is an update waiting on archivemount. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.