$ sudo apt-get install p7zip-full p7zip-rar If you don’t want to mount ISO file, you can simply install 7zip, is an open source archive program used to pack or unpack different number of formats including TAR, XZ, GZIP, ZIP, BZIP2, etc. Note: The -r option used to copy directories recursively, if you want you can also monitor progress of copy command. Now you can go inside the mounted directory ( /mnt/iso) and access the files or copy the files to /tmp directory using cp command. Once directory has been created, you can easily mount file and verify its content by running following command.