How To Install godot on Fedora 34

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Introduction

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

What is `godot`

Godot is an advanced, feature-packed, multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine. It provides a huge set of common tools, so you can just focus on making your game without reinventing the wheel. Godot is completely free and open source under the very permissive MIT license. No strings attached, no royalties, nothing. Your game is yours, down to the last line of engine code.

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

Install godot 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 godot using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install godot

Install godot 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 godot using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install godot

How To Uninstall godot on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove godot

godot Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/godot
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/02
/usr/lib/.build-id/02/0ce2a278756091eab9309489011762cfea83f4
/usr/share/applications/org.godotengine.Godot.desktop
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/godot
/usr/share/doc/godot
/usr/share/doc/godot/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/godot/DONORS.md
/usr/share/doc/godot/README.md
/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/godot.fish
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/godot.svg
/usr/share/licenses/godot
/usr/share/licenses/godot/AUTHORS.md
/usr/share/licenses/godot/COPYRIGHT.txt
/usr/share/licenses/godot/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/licenses/godot/LOGO_LICENSE.md
/usr/share/man/man6/godot.6.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/org.godotengine.Godot.appdata.xml
/usr/share/mime/application/x-godot-project.xml
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_godot
/usr/bin/godot
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8d
/usr/lib/.build-id/8d/ef5d0087dd980de684f212bf44e491596fc282
/usr/share/applications/org.godotengine.Godot.desktop
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/godot
/usr/share/doc/godot
/usr/share/doc/godot/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/godot/DONORS.md
/usr/share/doc/godot/README.md
/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/godot.fish
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/godot.svg
/usr/share/licenses/godot
/usr/share/licenses/godot/AUTHORS.md
/usr/share/licenses/godot/COPYRIGHT.txt
/usr/share/licenses/godot/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/licenses/godot/LOGO_LICENSE.md
/usr/share/man/man6/godot.6.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/org.godotengine.Godot.appdata.xml
/usr/share/mime/application/org.godotengine.Godot.xml
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_godot

References

godot website

Summary

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