How To Install frotz on Fedora 34

frotz is Interactive fiction interpreter for Z-Machine (Infocom) games

Introduction

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

What is frotz

Frotz is an interpreter for Infocom games and other Z-machine games. It complies with standard 1.0 of Graham Nelson’s specification. Free Z-machine game file downloads, as well as more information about Infocom, Z-machine games, and interactive fiction can be found at the Interactive Fiction Archive, http

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

Install frotz 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 frotz using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install frotz

Install frotz 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 frotz using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install frotz

How To Uninstall frotz on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove frotz

frotz Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/frotz.conf
/usr/bin/dfrotz
/usr/bin/frotz
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/46
/usr/lib/.build-id/46/bc232ac13093db9e3e7f9652f497ad4e2144ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/55537c2f034da9230861e80f8128082e40a420
/usr/share/doc/frotz
/usr/share/doc/frotz/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/frotz/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/frotz/DUMB
/usr/share/doc/frotz/HOW_TO_PLAY
/usr/share/doc/frotz/README
/usr/share/doc/frotz/TODO
/usr/share/doc/frotz/frotz.conf-big
/usr/share/doc/frotz/frotz.conf-small
/usr/share/licenses/frotz
/usr/share/licenses/frotz/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man6/dfrotz.6.gz
/usr/share/man/man6/frotz.6.gz

References

Summary

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