I want to install genisoimage. How to proceed?

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Hi folks,

I’m new to UBlue, but not new to computers or to Linux. One foot-gun that I have encountered repeatedly, across multiple OSes, is that package managers will mess up your system if you don’t use them correctly. None of them are capable of enforcing your good behavior.

On my new Aurora 43 install, I have acquired a few new applications from Bazaar. I think that this is the package manager of choice, when you’re looking for something that works with the GUI.

I need to make a universal, bootable ISO, so I want genisoimage, a CLI tool. Just to make sure, I checked to see whether it is present on Bazaar. As expected, it was not.

The Aurora offline docs mention both Homebrew and something called DistroBox, both of which I think are used for non-GUI installs, but with different levels of containerization. I think that DistroBox adds a level of complexity that I do not need, and in any case, brew is mentioned in the docs before DistroBox.

I just typed brew in my terminal… and not even brew is installed on my system? OK, I wasn’t expecting that. (EDIT: update, brew is accessible, but it’s privileged, so you have to use sudo.)

Please help me to understand the correct sequence when searching for and installing packages.

Thanks!

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I think we’re all supposed to be using xorriso, which is in brew.

mkisofs is in the cdrtools package along with that other stuff. It’s been a long time since I looked at this set of tools though.

(Not sure on the brew thing that’s not normal it should work ootb)

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Thanks for the reply, J0rge.

I will keep xorriso in mind. In any case, I would need brew to install it. I’ll go ask the folks in the Aurora forum why I don’t seem to have it.

EDIT: never mind! The docs didn’t mention that brew is privileged, and that sudo is needed to execute it.

This is a stricter than apt on Debian/Ubuntu; some apt commands will run without elevated privileges. Apparently the UBlue branch doesn’t even want you to know that brew exists unless you’re an admin.

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That’s not how it’s supposed to be, please file an issue with aurora, the brew command should work ootb with no elevated priviledges. Thanks!

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Done.

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Yeah it works fine without sudo.

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xorriso is pre-installed as rpm package in Aurora.