How To Install atari800 on CentOS 8

atari800 is An emulator of 8-bit Atari personal computers

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.