How To Install glaxium on Fedora 34
glaxium is An OpenGL space shooter
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install glaxium on Fedora 34.
What is glaxium
Glaxium is an OpenGL-based space-ship “shoot-em-up” styled game. It is designed to provide the same feel as the old 2D games of that type, but with 3D for the special effects.
We can use yum or dnf to install glaxium on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install glaxium.
Install glaxium 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 glaxium using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install glaxium
Install glaxium 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 glaxium using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install glaxium
How To Uninstall glaxium on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the glaxium package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove glaxium
glaxium Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/glaxium
/usr/bin/glaxium-wrapper
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd/93cafd70e888530b6a1102657d787ac374ca59
/usr/share/appdata/glaxium.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/glaxium.desktop
/usr/share/doc/glaxium
/usr/share/doc/glaxium/CHANGES.txt
/usr/share/doc/glaxium/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/glaxium/README.txt
/usr/share/glaxium
/usr/share/glaxium/samples
/usr/share/glaxium/samples/detection.wav
/usr/share/glaxium/samples/explode1.wav
/usr/share/glaxium/samples/explode2.wav
/usr/share/glaxium/samples/gameover.wav
/usr/share/glaxium/samples/glax.xm
/usr/share/glaxium/samples/glax3.xm
/usr/share/glaxium/samples/glups.wav
/usr/share/glaxium/samples/powerup.wav
/usr/share/glaxium/samples/tachefire.wav
/usr/share/glaxium/samples/tir.wav
/usr/share/glaxium/samples/welcome.wav
/usr/share/glaxium/textures
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/bandit1.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/bandit2.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/board.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/bord.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/border.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/border2.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/camouflage.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/capsule_bomb.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/capsule_invul.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/capsule_power.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/capsule_shield.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/chain.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/chars.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/cube.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/deadtache.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/effect1.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/fighter2.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/floor.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/floor1.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/floor2.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/floor3.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/floor4.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/floormap.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/floormap1.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/floormap2.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/floormap3.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/floormap4.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/fumee1.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/fumee2.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/fumee3.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/galaxy.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/gameover.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/glax2.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/iflicla.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/mark.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/missile.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/myship.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/piege.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/ship1.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/space0.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/space1.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/space2.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/space3.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/sphere.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/tache.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/thunder.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/glaxium.png
/usr/share/man/man6/glaxium.6.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install glaxium on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
