How To Install atari++ on Fedora 34

atari++ is Unix based emulator of the Atari eight bit computers

Introduction

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

What is atari++

The Atari++ Emulator is a Unix based emulator of the Atari eight bit computers, namely the Atari 400 and 800, the Atari 400XL, 800XL and 130XE, and the Atari 5200 game console. The emulator is auto-configurable and will compile on a variety of systems (Linux, Solaris, Irix). Atari++ 1.30 and up contain a built-in ROM emulation that tries to mimic the AtariXL operating system closely.

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

Install atari++ 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 atari++ using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install atari++

Install atari++ 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 atari++ using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install atari++

How To Uninstall atari++ on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the atari++ package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove atari++

atari++ Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/atari++
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/95
/usr/lib/.build-id/95/9d1ca0638f6937b943e0c965edae4018db1ebf
/usr/share/applications/atari++.desktop
/usr/share/atari++
/usr/share/atari++/system.atr
/usr/share/doc/atari++
/usr/share/doc/atari++/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/atari++/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/atari++/README.History
/usr/share/doc/atari++/README.LEGAL
/usr/share/doc/atari++/README.licence
/usr/share/doc/atari++/basic++doc.pdf
/usr/share/doc/atari++/manual
/usr/share/doc/atari++/manual/atari++.html
/usr/share/doc/atari++/manual/grohtml-154751.png
/usr/share/doc/atari++/manual/grohtml-1547510.png
/usr/share/doc/atari++/manual/grohtml-1547511.png
/usr/share/doc/atari++/manual/grohtml-1547512.png
/usr/share/doc/atari++/manual/grohtml-1547513.png
/usr/share/doc/atari++/manual/grohtml-154752.png
/usr/share/doc/atari++/manual/grohtml-154753.png
/usr/share/doc/atari++/manual/grohtml-154754.png
/usr/share/doc/atari++/manual/grohtml-154755.png
/usr/share/doc/atari++/manual/grohtml-154756.png
/usr/share/doc/atari++/manual/grohtml-154757.png
/usr/share/doc/atari++/manual/grohtml-154758.png
/usr/share/doc/atari++/manual/grohtml-154759.png
/usr/share/doc/atari++/os++doc.pdf
/usr/share/man/man6/atari++.6.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/atari2.svg

References

Summary

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