How To Install trader on CentOS 8

trader is Star Traders, a simple game of interstellar trading

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install trader on CentOS 8.

What is `trader`

Star Traders is a simple game of interstellar trading, where the objective is to create companies, buy and sell shares, borrow and repay money, in order to become the wealthiest player (the winner).

We can use yum or dnf to install trader on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install trader.

Install trader 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 trader using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install trader

Install trader 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 trader using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install trader

How To Uninstall trader on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove trader

trader Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/trader
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd/6d196fddd27f2172f31125fcc07e04b5c20eaf
/usr/share/applications/trader.desktop
/usr/share/doc/trader
/usr/share/doc/trader/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/trader/README
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/trader.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/trader.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/trader.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/trader.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/trader.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/trader.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/trader.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/trader.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/trader.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/trader.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/trader.svg
/usr/share/licenses/trader
/usr/share/licenses/trader/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/trader.mo
/usr/share/man/man6/trader.6.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/trader.appdata.xml

References

trader website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install trader on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.