How To Install atari800 on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install atari800 on CentOS 8.
What is atari800
Atari800 is an emulator for the 800, 800XL, 130XE and 5200 models of the Atari personal computer. It can be used on console, FrameBuffer or X11. It features excellent compatibility, HIFI sound support, artifacting emulation, precise cycle-exact ANTIC/GTIA emulation and more.
We can use yum or dnf to install atari800 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install atari800.
Install atari800 on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install atari800 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install atari800
Install atari800 on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install atari800 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install atari800
How To Uninstall atari800 on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the atari800 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove atari800
atari800 Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/atari800
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d6
/usr/lib/.build-id/d6/c07b0539a83b0d79fa10b88b2f6e11548ab4f2
/usr/share/doc/atari800
/usr/share/doc/atari800/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/atari800/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/atari800/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/atari800/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/atari800/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/atari800/HOWTO-DIRTYRECT
/usr/share/doc/atari800/HOWTO-DIRTYSPAN
/usr/share/doc/atari800/LPTjoy.txt
/usr/share/doc/atari800/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/atari800/README
/usr/share/doc/atari800/README.TXT
/usr/share/doc/atari800/TODO
/usr/share/doc/atari800/USAGE
/usr/share/doc/atari800/cart.txt
/usr/share/doc/atari800/coverage.txt
/usr/share/doc/atari800/pokeysnd.txt
/usr/share/doc/atari800/r_device.txt
/usr/share/doc/atari800/rdevice_faq.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/atari800.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install atari800 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.