How To Install freedoom on Fedora 34

freedoom is Doom styled first person shooter game

Introduction

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

What is freedoom

Freedoom Doom engine, featuring Four chapters, nine levels each, totalling 36 levels. There is a massive back catalog, spanning over two decades, containing thousands of Doom levels and other modifications (“mods”) made by fans of the original Doom game. Freedoom aims to be compatible with these and allows most to be played without the original Doom datafiles. Freedoom also known as plain Doom or Doom 1.

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

Install freedoom 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 freedoom using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install freedoom

Install freedoom 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 freedoom using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install freedoom

How To Uninstall freedoom on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove freedoom

freedoom Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/freedoom1
/usr/share/appdata/freedoom1.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/freedoom1.desktop
/usr/share/doc/freedoom
/usr/share/doc/freedoom/CREDITS.txt
/usr/share/doc/freedoom/README.html
/usr/share/doom/freedoom1.wad
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/freedoom.png
/usr/share/licenses/freedoom
/usr/share/licenses/freedoom/COPYING.txt

References

Summary

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