How To Install ballerburg on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ballerburg on Fedora 34.
What is ballerburg
Two castles, separated by a mountain, try to defeat each other with their cannonballs, either by killing the opponent’s king or by weakening the opponent enough so that the king capitulates. Ballerburg was originally written 1987 by Eckhard Kruse, for the Atari ST machines (which were brand new computers at that point in time). Over 25 years later, here’s finally the adaption of the original source code to modern operating systems.
We can use yum or dnf to install ballerburg on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ballerburg.
Install ballerburg 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 ballerburg using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ballerburg
Install ballerburg 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 ballerburg using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ballerburg
How To Uninstall ballerburg on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the ballerburg package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ballerburg
ballerburg Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/ballerburg
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd/c6aa0ed34bd6ac63429ad012f7534a46985079
/usr/share/applications/ballerburg.desktop
/usr/share/ballerburg
/usr/share/ballerburg/baller.dat
/usr/share/ballerburg/baller.mus
/usr/share/doc/ballerburg
/usr/share/doc/ballerburg/LIESMICH.txt
/usr/share/doc/ballerburg/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/ballerburg/anleitung.html
/usr/share/doc/ballerburg/authors.txt
/usr/share/doc/ballerburg/manual.html
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/ballerburg.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/ballerburg.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/ballerburg.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/ballerburg.png
/usr/share/licenses/ballerburg
/usr/share/licenses/ballerburg/COPYING.txt
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/ballerburg.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/ballerburg.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/ballerburg.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/ballerburg.mo
/usr/share/man/man6/ballerburg.6.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/ballerburg.appdata.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ballerburg on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.