How To Install alienarena on Fedora 34

alienarena is Multiplayer retro sci-fi deathmatch game

Introduction

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

What is alienarena

Alien Arena is a furious frag fest with arenas ranging from the small to the massive. With game modes such as Capture The Flag and Tactical, there are terrific team-based experiences to be had as well as 1v1 duels, free-for-all and dozens of mutators to alter the game play to your liking.

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

Install alienarena 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 alienarena using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install alienarena

Install alienarena 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 alienarena using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install alienarena

How To Uninstall alienarena on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove alienarena

alienarena Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/alienarena
/usr/bin/alienarena-wrapper
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf/36e092cbc7703db1ac24965bdf7958fca2cdfa
/usr/share/appdata/alienarena.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/alienarena.desktop
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/alienarena.png

References

Summary

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