How To Install freedroid on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freedroid on Fedora 34.
What is freedroid
This is a clone of the classic game “Paradroid” on Commodore 64 with some improvements and extensions to the classic version. In this game, you control a robot, depicted by a small white ball with a few numbers within an interstellar spaceship consisting of several decks connected by elevators. The aim of the game is to destroy all enemy robots, depicted by small black balls with a few numbers, by either shooting them or seizing control over them by creating connections in a short subgame of electric circuits.
We can use yum or dnf to install freedroid on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freedroid.
Install freedroid 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 freedroid using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install freedroid
Install freedroid 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 freedroid using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install freedroid
How To Uninstall freedroid on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the freedroid package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove freedroid
freedroid Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/freedroid
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1/867a1b7e36c16bd9705c407901b4fe8218bdf4
/usr/share/applications/freedroid.desktop
/usr/share/doc/freedroid
/usr/share/doc/freedroid/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/freedroid/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/freedroid/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/freedroid/README
/usr/share/doc/freedroid/TODO
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/freedroid.png
/usr/share/licenses/freedroid
/usr/share/licenses/freedroid/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man6/freedroid.6.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freedroid on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
