How To Install eureka on Fedora 34

eureka is A cross-platform map editor for the classic DOOM games

Introduction

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

What is eureka

Eureka is a cross-platform map editor for the classic DOOM games. It started when the ported the Yadex editor to a proper GUI toolkit, namely FLTK, and implemented a system for multi-level Undo / Redo. These and other features have required rewriting large potions of the existing code, and adding lots of new code too. Eureka is now an independent program with its own work-flow and its own quirks.

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

Install eureka 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 eureka using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install eureka

Install eureka 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 eureka using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install eureka

How To Uninstall eureka on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove eureka

eureka Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/eureka
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/92
/usr/lib/.build-id/92/a241f16448490a218f6964c3163f9d5afc267e
/usr/share/applications/eureka.desktop
/usr/share/doc/eureka
/usr/share/doc/eureka/AUTHORS.txt
/usr/share/doc/eureka/CHANGES.txt
/usr/share/doc/eureka/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/eureka/TODO.txt
/usr/share/eureka
/usr/share/eureka/about_logo.png
/usr/share/eureka/bindings.cfg
/usr/share/eureka/common
/usr/share/eureka/common/doom_colors.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/common/doom_groups.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/common/doom_lines.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/common/doom_sectors.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/common/doom_tex.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/common/doom_things.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/common/gen_types.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/common/hexen_groups.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/common/hexen_lines.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/common/hexen_sectors.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/common/plutonia_tex.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/common/tnt_tex.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/defaults.cfg
/usr/share/eureka/games
/usr/share/eureka/games/doom.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/games/doom2.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/games/freedm.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/games/freedoom1.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/games/freedoom2.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/games/hacx.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/games/harm1.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/games/heretic.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/games/hexen.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/games/plutonia.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/games/strife1.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/games/tnt.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/operations.cfg
/usr/share/eureka/ports
/usr/share/eureka/ports/boom.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/ports/edge.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/ports/eternity.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/ports/legacy.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/ports/mbf.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/ports/odamex.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/ports/vanilla.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/ports/xdoom.ugh
/usr/share/eureka/ports/zdoom.ugh
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/eureka.png
/usr/share/licenses/eureka
/usr/share/licenses/eureka/GPL.txt

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Summary

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