How To Install uqm on Fedora 34

uqm is The Ur-Quan Masters, a port of the classic game Star Control II

Introduction

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

What is uqm

The Ur-Quan Masters is a port of the classic game Star Control II to modern systems. The program code that comprises The Ur-Quan Masters was derived from code written by Toys for Bob, Inc. for the 3DO version of Star Control II, with their permission and encouragement.

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

Install uqm 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 uqm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install uqm

Install uqm 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 uqm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install uqm

How To Uninstall uqm on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove uqm

uqm Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/uqm.conf
/usr/bin/uqm
/usr/games/uqm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/62
/usr/lib/.build-id/62/8735a3d8d33ec7a2dc1766f7fd9f2f13e2b5ed
/usr/share/appdata/uqm.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/uqm.desktop
/usr/share/doc/uqm
/usr/share/doc/uqm/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/uqm/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/uqm/Contributing
/usr/share/doc/uqm/README
/usr/share/doc/uqm/WhatsNew
/usr/share/doc/uqm/manual.txt
/usr/share/licenses/uqm
/usr/share/licenses/uqm/COPYING
/usr/share/pixmaps/uqm.png
/usr/share/uqm
/usr/share/uqm/content
/usr/share/uqm/content/packages
/usr/share/uqm/content/packages/addons
/usr/share/uqm/content/version
/usr/share/uqm/uqm-functions.sh
/usr/share/uqm/uqm.autodlrc

References

Summary

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