How To Install colossus on Fedora 34

colossus is Allows people to play Titan against each other or AIs

Introduction

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

What is colossus

Colossus allows people to play Titan (http seat or via a network. Several different AIs are provided that can play instead of humans.

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

Install colossus 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 colossus using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install colossus

Install colossus 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 colossus using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install colossus

How To Uninstall colossus on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove colossus

colossus Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/colossus
/usr/share/appdata/colossus.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/colossus.desktop
/usr/share/doc/colossus
/usr/share/doc/colossus/AddNew.JPG
/usr/share/doc/colossus/AddServerDetails.JPG
/usr/share/doc/colossus/BattleFeatures.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/BattlelandsBuilder.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/BattlelandsRandomizer.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/BugReporting.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/COPYING.GPL
/usr/share/doc/colossus/ChangesInStartMain-Nov_2007.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/ClientMenuBar.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/ClientPreferences.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/CodingStandards.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/Colossus-Public-Game-Server.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/Credits.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/EnableJavaConsoleLogging.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/EnableJavaConsoleLogging.png
/usr/share/doc/colossus/FAQ.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/FileFormat.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/GetPlayersOptions.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/HW-SW-Req.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/MarkerSet-HOWTO.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/Mumble.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/PGS-FAQ.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/PGS-Wishlist-and-TODO.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/ProxyCreatures.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/README.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/RecentChangesDetails.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/Release-Note-0.14.0.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/SplitPrediction.txt
/usr/share/doc/colossus/TODO.txt
/usr/share/doc/colossus/Variant-HOWTO.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/WebClient.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/WebServer.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/XMLprotocol.txt
/usr/share/doc/colossus/build.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/index.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/network-design.txt
/usr/share/doc/colossus/network.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/options.txt
/usr/share/doc/colossus/play-colossus.html
/usr/share/doc/colossus/remainingStringParameters.txt
/usr/share/java/colossus.jar
/usr/share/pixmaps/colossus.png

References

Summary

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