How To Install warmux on Fedora 34

warmux is 2D turn-based artillery game

Introduction

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

What is warmux

Let’s begin the WAR of Mascots from UniX! They’ll represent your favorite free software titles while battling it out in the arena using dynamite, grenades, baseball bats and other bazookas… Exterminate your opponent in a 2D environment with toon-style scenery. Each player controls the team of his choice (penguin, gnu, firefox, wilber,…) and must destroy his adversary using more or less casual weapons. Although a minimum of strategy is required to vanquish, WarMUX is pre-eminently a “convivial mass murder” game where, turn by turn, each member of each team. The project was started as Wormux, and was renamed to Warmux in November 2010.

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

Install warmux 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 warmux using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install warmux

Install warmux 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 warmux using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install warmux

How To Uninstall warmux on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove warmux

warmux Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/warmux
/usr/bin/warmux-list-games
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c/30a308be6e79e589502bc0ab4fcc4e399b435e
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c/f1dda7e8a568dfea96cc98d13e79f9147cbb92
/usr/share/appdata/warmux.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/warmux.desktop
/usr/share/doc/warmux
/usr/share/doc/warmux/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/warmux/ChangeLog
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/warmux.png
/usr/share/licenses/warmux
/usr/share/licenses/warmux/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/cpf/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja_JP/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/kw/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/warmux.mo
/usr/share/man/man6/warmux.6.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/warmux_128x128.png

References

Summary

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