How To Install ants on Fedora 34

ants is Guide the insects safely home before they drop of the cliff

Introduction

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

What is ants

You take command in the game of a bunch of small ants and have to guide them around in levels. Since the ants walk on their own, the player can only influence them by giving them commands, like build a bridge, dig a hole or redirect all ants in the other direction. The goal of each level is to reach the exit, for which multiple combination of commands are necessary. The game is presented in a 2D side view.

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

Install ants 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 ants using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ants

Install ants 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 ants using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ants

How To Uninstall ants on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove ants

ants Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/ants
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/43
/usr/lib/.build-id/43/bf67ee85b698fb106ad400c74a841dae996201
/usr/share/ants
/usr/share/ants/ants.dat
/usr/share/ants/levels1
/usr/share/ants/levels1/level1.ini
/usr/share/ants/levels1/level1.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels1/level10.ini
/usr/share/ants/levels1/level10.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels1/level11.ini
/usr/share/ants/levels1/level11.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels1/level12.ini
/usr/share/ants/levels1/level12.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels1/level2.ini
/usr/share/ants/levels1/level2.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels1/level3.ini
/usr/share/ants/levels1/level3.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels1/level4.ini
/usr/share/ants/levels1/level4.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels1/level5.ini
/usr/share/ants/levels1/level5.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels1/level6.ini
/usr/share/ants/levels1/level6.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels1/level7.ini
/usr/share/ants/levels1/level7.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels1/level8.ini
/usr/share/ants/levels1/level8.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels1/level9.ini
/usr/share/ants/levels1/level9.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels1/pretty1.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels1/pretty10.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels1/pretty11.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels1/pretty12.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels1/pretty2.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels1/pretty3.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels1/pretty4.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels1/pretty5.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels1/pretty6.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels1/pretty7.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels1/pretty8.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels1/pretty9.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels2
/usr/share/ants/levels2/level1.ini
/usr/share/ants/levels2/level1.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels2/level2.ini
/usr/share/ants/levels2/level2.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels2/level3.ini
/usr/share/ants/levels2/level3.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels2/level4.ini
/usr/share/ants/levels2/level4.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels2/pretty1.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels2/pretty2.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels2/pretty3.pcx
/usr/share/ants/levels2/pretty4.pcx
/usr/share/applications/ants.desktop
/usr/share/doc/ants
/usr/share/doc/ants/Changelog
/usr/share/doc/ants/ants.txt
/usr/share/doc/ants/license-info
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/ants.png

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Summary

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