How To Install sdlhack on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sdlhack
on Fedora 34.
What is sdlhack
SDLHack is a wrapper for SDL which lets you force full-screen games to minimize. It also allows you to disable joystick detection.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install sdlhack
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sdlhack.
Install sdlhack 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 sdlhack
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sdlhack
Install sdlhack 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 sdlhack
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sdlhack
How To Uninstall sdlhack on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the sdlhack
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sdlhack
sdlhack Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/sdlhack
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1/0929e05befe2a860d9072b1eca738329e0206a
/usr/lib64/sdlhack
/usr/lib64/sdlhack/libsdlhack.so
/usr/share/doc/sdlhack
/usr/share/doc/sdlhack/README
/usr/share/licenses/sdlhack
/usr/share/licenses/sdlhack/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/sdlhack.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sdlhack
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.