📥 Installation

Install erofs-utils via Package Managers

erofs-utils is available on most popular Linux distributions, although it may not be the latest stable version.

Here are examples for Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora, OpenAnolis and Ubuntu:

# Arch Linux
$ sudo pacman -S erofs-utils

# Debian and Ubuntu
$ sudo apt install -y erofs-utils

# Fedora and OpenAnolis
$ sudo dnf install -y erofs-utils

On macOS, erofs-utils can be installed using MacPorts or Homebrew:

# MacPorts
$ sudo port install erofs-utils

# Homebrew
$ brew install erofs-utils

Build from source

Install build dependencies

To build erofs-utils, the following dependencies will be needed:

# Debian and Ubuntu
$ sudo apt install -y autoconf automake libfuse-dev liblz4-dev liblzma-dev libtool libzstd-dev pkg-config uuid-dev zlib1g-dev

# Fedora and OpenAnolis
$ sudo dnf install -y autoconf automake fuse-devel libtool libuuid-devel libzstd-devel lz4-devel pkg-config xz-devel zlib-devel

Download the erofs-utils source code

Use Git to clone the erofs-utils repository:

$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/erofs-utils.git

The repo defaults to the master development branch. You can also check out a release tag to build:

$ git checkout <tag> # v1.9.1, v1.8.10, v1.7.1, etc.

Configure and build

Please run ./autogen.sh; ./configure from the repository’s root directory. ./configure will prompt you for the usability of erofs-utils dependencies and asks for additional build configuration options:

$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --enable-lz4 --enable-lzma --enable-fuse --with-libzstd
$ make

Install erofs-utils

Use make install to install the generated files of erofs-utils:

$ sudo make install