How To Install freedink on Fedora 34

freedink is Humorous top-down adventure and role-playing game

Introduction

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

What is freedink

Dink Smallwood is an adventure/role-playing game, similar to Zelda, made by RTsoft. Besides twisted humor, it includes the actual game editor, allowing players to create hundreds of new adventures called Dink Modules or D-Mods for short. GNU FreeDink is a new and portable version of the game engine, which runs the original game as well as its D-Mods, with close compatibility, under multiple platforms. This package is a meta-package to install the game, its data and a front-end to manage game options and D-Mods.

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

Install freedink 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 freedink using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install freedink

Install freedink 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 freedink using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install freedink

How To Uninstall freedink on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove freedink

freedink Package Contents on Fedora 34

References

Summary

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