How To Install darkplaces on Fedora 34

darkplaces is Modified Quake engine

Introduction

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

What is darkplaces

DarkPlaces is a modified Quake engine.

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

Install darkplaces 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 darkplaces using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install darkplaces

Install darkplaces 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 darkplaces using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install darkplaces

How To Uninstall darkplaces on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove darkplaces

darkplaces Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/darkplaces-glx
/usr/bin/darkplaces-sdl
/usr/bin/darkplaces-sdl-wrapper
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e/6c192556145771c8c8c284e38b058a6b7afe3a
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/cebe2d51af5a5020dae1c299b47d0bb0774125
/usr/share/doc/darkplaces
/usr/share/doc/darkplaces/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/darkplaces/darkplaces.txt
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/darkplaces.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/darkplaces.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/darkplaces.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/darkplaces.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/darkplaces.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/72x72/apps/darkplaces.png

References

Summary

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