Welcome to Squashfs-tools!

This is the official Squashfs-tools repository.

To build and install the tools please read the Documentation/4.7.5/INSTALL.md file

To find out how use the latest release please start by reading Documentation/4.7.5/README.md

The latest 4.7.5 release may have already been packaged for your distribution, please see "Packaging status" below.

Thanks

Contents of the repository

The top-level directory contains the following files:

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS - This contains some historical acknowlegements, this file has mostly been replaced by the Github issues tracker.
• CHANGES - a reverse chronological list of changes from the latest release to the earliest release.
• CHANGES.md - the above file in markdown format.
• CONTRIBUTING.md - how to ask for features (feature requests), and the way to do Pull requests.
• COPYING - GNU general public license file.
• INSTALL - where to get the INSTALL file for your version of squashfs-tools.
• README - where to get the README for your version of squashfs-tools.
• README.md - The file displayed here.
• SECURITY.md - Where to report security issues.
• USAGE - where to get the USAGE files for your version of squashfs-tools.

The top-level directory has the following directories:

• Documentation - this directory contains documentation for various versions of squashfs-tools, and it is split into subdirectories for versions 4.5 through to 4.7.6, the latest released version is 4.7.5, and the development version will become 4.7.6. It also has a directory containing prebuilt manpages for the latest development version of squashfs-tools.
• squashfs-tools - the source code directory, enter this directory and type make to build, or sudo make install to install. Edit the Makefile to change the compression algorithms built and other defaults including install PATH, XATTR support, and number of parallel reader threads.