How To Install crawl on Fedora 34

crawl is Roguelike dungeon exploration game

Introduction

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

What is `crawl`

This is the Console (ncurses) version of crawl. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is a free roguelike game of exploration and treasure-hunting in dungeons filled with dangerous and unfriendly monsters in a quest for the mystifyingly fabulous Orb of Zot. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup has diverse species and many different character backgrounds to choose from, deep tactical game-play, sophisticated magic, religion and skill systems, and a grand variety of monsters to fight and run from, making each game unique and challenging.

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

Install crawl 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 crawl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install crawl

Install crawl 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 crawl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install crawl

How To Uninstall crawl on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove crawl

crawl Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/crawl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/91
/usr/lib/.build-id/91/75971c090e907102c1d18743ecb60f87c2d076
/usr/share/man/man6/crawl.6.gz

References

crawl website

Summary

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