How To Install atari800 on Fedora 34

atari800 is An emulator of 8-bit Atari personal computers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install atari800 on Fedora 34.

What is atari800

Atari800 is an emulator for the 800, 800XL, 130XE and 5200 models of the Atari personal computer. It can be used on console, FrameBuffer or X11. It features excellent compatibility, HIFI sound support, artifacting emulation, precise cycle-exact ANTIC/GTIA emulation and more.

We can use yum or dnf to install atari800 on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install atari800.

Install atari800 on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install atari800 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install atari800

Install atari800 on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install atari800 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install atari800

How To Uninstall atari800 on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the atari800 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove atari800

atari800 Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/atari800
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5/6a12840b95f2a842fba0f4076ba0a032a46373
/usr/share/doc/atari800
/usr/share/doc/atari800/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/atari800/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/atari800/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/atari800/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/atari800/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/atari800/HOWTO-DIRTYRECT
/usr/share/doc/atari800/HOWTO-DIRTYSPAN
/usr/share/doc/atari800/LPTjoy.txt
/usr/share/doc/atari800/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/atari800/README
/usr/share/doc/atari800/README.TXT
/usr/share/doc/atari800/TODO
/usr/share/doc/atari800/USAGE
/usr/share/doc/atari800/cart.txt
/usr/share/doc/atari800/coverage.txt
/usr/share/doc/atari800/pokeysnd.txt
/usr/share/doc/atari800/r_device.txt
/usr/share/doc/atari800/rdevice_faq.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/atari800.1.gz

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install atari800 on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.