How To Install love on Fedora 34

love is A free 2D game engine which enables easy game creation in Lua

Introduction

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

What is love

LOVE is an open source, cross platform 2D game engine which uses the Lua scripting language. LOVE can be used to make games of any license allowing it to be used for both free and non-free projects.

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

Install love 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 love using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install love

Install love 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 love using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install love

How To Uninstall love on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove love

love Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/love
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/04
/usr/lib/.build-id/04/b45d57c710cfbdb21b4de40b37c5f40d9ede8d
/usr/share/applications/love.desktop
/usr/share/doc/love
/usr/share/doc/love/changes.txt
/usr/share/doc/love/readme.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/mimetypes/application-x-love-game.svg
/usr/share/licenses/love
/usr/share/licenses/love/license.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/love.1.gz
/usr/share/mime/packages/love.xml
/usr/share/pixmaps/love.svg

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Summary

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