How To Install bastet on Fedora 34

bastet is An evil falling bricks game

Introduction

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

What is bastet

Bastet is a simple ncurses-based falling bricks like game. Unlike normal, however, Bastet does not choose your next brick at random. Instead, it uses a special algorithm designed to choose the worst brick possible. As you can imagine, playing Bastet can be a very frustrating experience!

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

Install bastet 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 bastet using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bastet

Install bastet 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 bastet using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bastet

How To Uninstall bastet on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove bastet

bastet Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/bastet
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/30
/usr/lib/.build-id/30/bdda40f0a41b7d40531aa42b83eabc452b911b
/usr/share/appdata/bastet.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/bastet.desktop
/usr/share/doc/bastet
/usr/share/doc/bastet/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/bastet/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/bastet/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/bastet/README
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/bastet.png
/usr/share/man/man6/bastet.6.gz

References

Summary

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