How To Install gosnake on Fedora 34

gosnake is The Console Snake Game

Introduction

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

What is gosnake

GoSnake is a simple yet nice implementation of the well known snake game. It is designed to run under the GNU/Linux console (including terminal emulators). The aim of the game is simple it around to eat food without hitting walls, or colliding with itself. The game includes many levels with an option to play levels randomly, and a high score board.

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

Install gosnake 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 gosnake using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gosnake

Install gosnake 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 gosnake using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gosnake

How To Uninstall gosnake on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove gosnake

gosnake Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/gosnake
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7/66a406706d7349c68043f3d6377d7eb2c36c6b
/usr/share/doc/gosnake
/usr/share/doc/gosnake/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gosnake/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/gosnake/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/gosnake/README
/usr/share/info/gosnake.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/gosnake
/usr/share/licenses/gosnake/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/gosnake.1.gz

References

Summary

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