How To Install CriticalMass on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install CriticalMass on Fedora 34.
What is CriticalMass
Critical Mass (aka Critter) is an SDL/OpenGL space shoot’em up game. Your world has been infested by an aggressive army of space critters. Overrun and unprepared, your government was unable to defend its precious resources. As a last effort to recapture some of the “goodies”, you have been placed into a tiny spacecraft and sent after them.
We can use yum or dnf to install CriticalMass on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install CriticalMass.
Install CriticalMass 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 CriticalMass using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install CriticalMass
Install CriticalMass 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 CriticalMass using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install CriticalMass
How To Uninstall CriticalMass on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the CriticalMass package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove CriticalMass
CriticalMass Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/critter
/usr/bin/critter-wrapper
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/73
/usr/lib/.build-id/73/733e6d331df1649785aed371410b3b2868470d
/usr/share/Critical_Mass
/usr/share/Critical_Mass/resource.dat
/usr/share/appdata/CriticalMass.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/CriticalMass.desktop
/usr/share/doc/CriticalMass
/usr/share/doc/CriticalMass/Readme.html
/usr/share/doc/CriticalMass/TODO
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/critter.png
/usr/share/licenses/CriticalMass
/usr/share/licenses/CriticalMass/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man6/critter.6.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install CriticalMass on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
