How To Install gnurobbo on Fedora 34

gnurobbo is Port of an once famous game named Robbo from 1989

Introduction

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

What is `gnurobbo`

GNU Robbo is a free open source port of Janusz Pelc’s Robbo which was distributed by LK Avalon in 1989. Features (some of them cat not be provided due to legal reasons) + Graphical skin support + Sound skin support + Support for user supplied music + 1113 levels across 28 packs converted from Robbo and Robbo Konstruktor + A mouse/stylus driven level designer + Support for Alex (a Robbo clone) objects + Support for Robbo Millenium objects + In-game help + Reconfigurable options and controls + Support for the mouse/stylus throughout the game + Support for keyboards, analogue and digital joysticks + Centering of game within any resolution >= 240x240 + Simple build system to maximize porting potential + Support for locales The game-play of the original is faithfully reproduced with a few modifications + Lives has been removed and suicide replaced with level restart + Scoring has been removed + Bears don’t endlessly spin around themselves + Capsules don’t spawn from question marks + Solid laser fire is not left live after the gun has been destroyed Take a look into README.fedora about legal issues cause of missing content.

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

Install gnurobbo 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 gnurobbo using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gnurobbo

Install gnurobbo 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 gnurobbo using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnurobbo

How To Uninstall gnurobbo on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove gnurobbo

gnurobbo Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/gnurobbo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/02
/usr/lib/.build-id/02/c6d4da3f2eb1cd6a06a548bd3e408c0f05d2aa
/usr/share/applications/gnurobbo.desktop
/usr/share/doc/gnurobbo
/usr/share/doc/gnurobbo/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gnurobbo/Bugs
/usr/share/doc/gnurobbo/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/gnurobbo/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gnurobbo/README
/usr/share/doc/gnurobbo/README.fedora
/usr/share/doc/gnurobbo/TODO
/usr/share/gnurobbo
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/76.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/TreRobbo01_l18.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/TreRobbo02_l32.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/TreRobbo03_l10.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/TreRobbo04_l10.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/TreRobbo05_l10.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/TreRobbo06_l10.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/TreRobbo07_l10.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/TreRobbo08_l10.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/TreRobbo09_l10.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/TreRobbo10_l10.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/TreRobbo11_l09.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/TreRobbo12_l10.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/TreRobbo13_l10.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/TreRobbo14_l10.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/TreRobbo15_l10.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/TreRobbo16_l10.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/TreRobbo17_l10.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/TreRobbo18_l10.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/TreRobbo19_l10.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/TreRobbo20_l10.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/TreRobbo21_l10.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/TreRobbo22_l10.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/TreRobbo23_l10.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/TreRobbo24_l10.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/TreRobbo25_l10.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/TreRobbo28_l10.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/alex01.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/boss.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/demo.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/designer.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/forever.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/gedzior.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/k-robbo.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/lutry.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/millenium_demo.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/pandino.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/rob653924.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/robbo01.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/robbo02.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/robbo03.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/robbo04.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/robbo05.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/robbo07.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/robbo08.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/robbo09.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/robbo10.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/robbo11.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/robbo12.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/robbo13.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/robbo14.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/robbo15.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/robbo2001.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/robbo2009.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/robbo3cs.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/robbo97.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/robbo98.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/robbo_b.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/sws01.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/sws02.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/sws03.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/sws04.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/sws06.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/sws07.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/sws08.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/swsMagnetic.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/swsTheBest.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/to.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/levels/warsaw.dat
/usr/share/gnurobbo/locales
/usr/share/gnurobbo/locales/cz_CZ
/usr/share/gnurobbo/locales/cz_CZ/localerc
/usr/share/gnurobbo/locales/cz_CZ/text
/usr/share/gnurobbo/locales/de_DE
/usr/share/gnurobbo/locales/de_DE/localerc
/usr/share/gnurobbo/locales/de_DE/text
/usr/share/gnurobbo/locales/en_GB
/usr/share/gnurobbo/locales/en_GB/localerc
/usr/share/gnurobbo/locales/en_GB/text
/usr/share/gnurobbo/locales/es_ES
/usr/share/gnurobbo/locales/es_ES/_localerc
/usr/share/gnurobbo/locales/es_ES/text
/usr/share/gnurobbo/locales/id_ID
/usr/share/gnurobbo/locales/id_ID/localerc
/usr/share/gnurobbo/locales/id_ID/text
/usr/share/gnurobbo/locales/pl_PL
/usr/share/gnurobbo/locales/pl_PL/localerc
/usr/share/gnurobbo/locales/pl_PL/text
/usr/share/gnurobbo/locales/ru_RU
/usr/share/gnurobbo/locales/ru_RU/localerc
/usr/share/gnurobbo/locales/ru_RU/text
/usr/share/gnurobbo/locales/sk_SK
/usr/share/gnurobbo/locales/sk_SK/localerc
/usr/share/gnurobbo/locales/sk_SK/text
/usr/share/gnurobbo/locales/sv_SE
/usr/share/gnurobbo/locales/sv_SE/localerc
/usr/share/gnurobbo/locales/sv_SE/text
/usr/share/gnurobbo/rob
/usr/share/gnurobbo/rob/robsprites.bmp
/usr/share/gnurobbo/skins
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/gnurobbo.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/gnurobbo.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/gnurobbo.png
/usr/share/licenses/gnurobbo
/usr/share/licenses/gnurobbo/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/gnurobbo/LICENSE-sound
/usr/share/licenses/gnurobbo/LICENSE-ttf

References

gnurobbo website

Summary

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