Information about the package, xorriso, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The xorriso package is designed for, ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge image manipulation tool.
Package Name:
xorriso
Summary:
ISO-9660 and Rock Ridge image manipulation tool
Description:
Xorriso is a program which copies file objects from POSIX compliant filesystems into Rock Ridge enhanced ISO-9660 filesystems and allows session-wise manipulation of such filesystems. It can load management information of existing ISO images and it writes the session results to optical media or to filesystem objects. Vice versa xorriso is able to copy file objects out of ISO-9660 filesystems. Filesystem manipulation capabilities surpass those of mkisofs. Xorriso is especially suitable for backups, because of its high fidelity of file attribute recording and its incremental update sessions. Optical supported media: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, BD-R and BD-RE.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.4.8
Release:
1.el6
Size:
275 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the xorriso package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install xorriso
This command will install xorriso on the server.
yum remove xorriso
This command will un-install xorriso on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove xorriso, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove xorriso
This command will un-install xorriso 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 xorriso when using the -y flag.
yum update xorriso
This command will update xorriso to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove xorriso, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update xorriso
This command will update xorriso 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 xorriso when using the -y flag.
yum info xorriso
This command will show you core information about the xorriso package.
yum deplist xorriso
This command will show you the dependencies for xorriso. 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 xorriso
This command will check if there is an update waiting on xorriso. 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.