How To Install freedoom2 on Fedora 34

freedoom2 is Doom2 styled first person shooter game

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freedoom2 on Fedora 34.

What is freedoom2

Freedoom Doom engine. Freedoom featuring extra monsters and a double-barrelled shotgun. 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

We can use yum or dnf to install freedoom2 on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freedoom2.

Install freedoom2 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 freedoom2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install freedoom2

Install freedoom2 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 freedoom2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install freedoom2

How To Uninstall freedoom2 on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the freedoom2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove freedoom2

freedoom2 Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/freedoom2
/usr/share/appdata/freedoom2.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/freedoom2.desktop
/usr/share/doc/freedoom2
/usr/share/doc/freedoom2/CREDITS.txt
/usr/share/doc/freedoom2/README.html
/usr/share/doom/freedoom.wad
/usr/share/doom/freedoom2.wad
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/freedoom.png
/usr/share/licenses/freedoom2
/usr/share/licenses/freedoom2/COPYING.txt

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install freedoom2 on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.