xorrisofs command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix xorrisofs command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

xorrisofs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xorrisofs: command not found

Solutions to xorrisofs: command not found

How To Fix xorrisofs: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu xorrisofs is provided by xorriso package.

xorriso is:

xorriso is a command line and dialog application, which creates, loads, manipulates, and writes ISO-9660 file system images with Rock Ridge extensions.

It maps file objects from POSIX compliant file systems into Rock Ridge enhanced ISO-9660 file systems and features session-wise manipulation of such file systems. It can load the management information of existing ISO images and write the resulting session to optical medium or as file system objects.

Supported optical media types:

  • CD-R, CD-RW
  • DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM
  • BD-R, BD-RE

Some interesting features:

  • Emulation of the mkisofs and cdrecord programs.
  • Data backup and restore capabilities - compression, ACLs, and filters.
  • Isohybrid MBR with partition offset - features booting ISOLINUX from USB sticks, or from other devices that appear to PC-BIOS as hard disks. The images carry a conventional partition table for a USB stick; the first partition reports the size of the ISO image, but starts at a non-zero address. It is nevertheless still mountable.
  • Jigdo Template Export - jigdo representation of the resulting ISO-9660 image, generated on the fly.

Test suite: xorriso source code comes with a release engineering test-suite called `releng’, which aims to cover most of the functionality of the xorriso and the underlying libraries of libburn, libisofs, and libisoburn.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install xorriso

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install xorriso.

sudo apt -y install xorriso

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install xorriso

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix xorrisofs command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.