How To Install ifm on Fedora 34

ifm is Interactive Fiction Mapper

Introduction

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

What is ifm

IFM is a language and a program for keeping track of your progress through an Interactive Fiction game. You can record each room you visit and its relation to other rooms, the initial locations of useful items you find, and the tasks you need to perform in order to solve the game.

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

Install ifm 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 ifm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ifm

Install ifm 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 ifm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ifm

How To Uninstall ifm on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove ifm

ifm Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/bash_completion.d/ifm.sh
/usr/bin/ifm
/usr/bin/ifm-rec2scr.pl
/usr/bin/ifm2dev
/usr/bin/ifm2tex
/usr/bin/ifm2web
/usr/bin/scr2ifm
/usr/bin/tkifm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/0cb40be79835259ceae8ac9dd5376778919904
/usr/share/doc/ifm
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_images
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_images/advent.png
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_images/example.png
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_images/infocom.png
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_images/ruins-graph-byroom.png
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_images/ruins-graph.png
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_images/ruins.png
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_sources
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_sources/changes.txt
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_sources/contents.txt
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_sources/editors.txt
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_sources/example.txt
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_sources/ifm2dev.txt
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_sources/ifm2tex.txt
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_sources/ifm2web.txt
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_sources/intro.txt
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_sources/language.txt
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_sources/license.txt
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_sources/links.txt
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_sources/maps.txt
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_sources/scr2ifm.txt
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_sources/solving.txt
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_sources/thanks.txt
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_sources/tkifm.txt
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_sources/tools.txt
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_sources/usage.txt
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_sources/vars.txt
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_static
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_static/contents.png
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_static/default.css
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_static/doctools.js
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_static/file.png
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_static/ifm.css
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_static/jquery.js
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_static/logo.ico
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_static/logo.png
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_static/minus.png
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_static/navigation.png
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_static/plus.png
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_static/pygments.css
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_static/rightsidebar.css
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_static/searchtools.js
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_static/sphinxdoc.css
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_static/stickysidebar.css
/usr/share/doc/ifm/_static/traditional.css
/usr/share/doc/ifm/changes.html
/usr/share/doc/ifm/contents.html
/usr/share/doc/ifm/editors.html
/usr/share/doc/ifm/example.html
/usr/share/doc/ifm/genindex.html
/usr/share/doc/ifm/ifm2dev.html
/usr/share/doc/ifm/ifm2tex.html
/usr/share/doc/ifm/ifm2web.html
/usr/share/doc/ifm/index.html
/usr/share/doc/ifm/intro.html
/usr/share/doc/ifm/language.html
/usr/share/doc/ifm/license.html
/usr/share/doc/ifm/links.html
/usr/share/doc/ifm/maps.html
/usr/share/doc/ifm/objects.inv
/usr/share/doc/ifm/scr2ifm.html
/usr/share/doc/ifm/search.html
/usr/share/doc/ifm/searchindex.js
/usr/share/doc/ifm/solving.html
/usr/share/doc/ifm/thanks.html
/usr/share/doc/ifm/tkifm.html
/usr/share/doc/ifm/tools.html
/usr/share/doc/ifm/usage.html
/usr/share/doc/ifm/vars.html
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ifm/ifm-mode.el
/usr/share/ifm
/usr/share/ifm/helvetica.ifm
/usr/share/ifm/ifm-init.ifm
/usr/share/ifm/ifm-pro.ps
/usr/share/ifm/ifm-rgb.txt
/usr/share/ifm/noshadow.ifm
/usr/share/ifm/puzzle.ifm
/usr/share/ifm/reckless.ifm
/usr/share/ifm/special.ifm
/usr/share/ifm/verbose.ifm
/usr/share/licenses/ifm
/usr/share/licenses/ifm/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/ifm.1.gz
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/syntax/ifm.vim

References

Summary

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