How To Install cave9 on Fedora 34

cave9 is 3d game of cave exploration

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cave9 on Fedora 34.

What is cave9

Cave9 is a gravity cave-exploration game.

We can use yum or dnf to install cave9 on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cave9.

Install cave9 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 cave9 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cave9

Install cave9 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 cave9 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cave9

How To Uninstall cave9 on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the cave9 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cave9

cave9 Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/cave9
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e/6f5e42794ed8f9c4d004e50e2db71cf684cf40
/usr/share/appdata/cave9.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/cave9.desktop
/usr/share/cave9
/usr/share/cave9/crash.wav
/usr/share/cave9/hit.wav
/usr/share/cave9/hud.ttf
/usr/share/cave9/icon.png
/usr/share/cave9/thrust.wav
/usr/share/cave9/wall.jpg
/usr/share/doc/cave9
/usr/share/doc/cave9/AUTHORS.txt
/usr/share/doc/cave9/COPYING.txt
/usr/share/doc/cave9/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/cave9/data_README.txt
/usr/share/pixmaps/cave9.png

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cave9 on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.