How To Install mmapper on Fedora 34

mmapper is Graphical MUME mapper

Introduction

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

What is `mmapper`

MMapper is a graphical mapper for a MUD named MUME (Multi-Users in Middle Earth). The game is traditionally played in a text-only mode, but MMapper tries to represent the virtual world in user-friendly graphical environment. It acts as a proxy between a telnet client and a MUD server, being able to analyze game data in real time and show player’s position in a map.

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

Install mmapper 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 mmapper using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mmapper

Install mmapper 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 mmapper using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mmapper

How To Uninstall mmapper on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove mmapper

mmapper Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/mmapper
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/91434fde5eb46c6bc5fd09855651c4d9ca510e
/usr/share/applications/org.mume.MMapper.desktop
/usr/share/doc/mmapper
/usr/share/doc/mmapper/NEWS.txt
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/org.mume.MMapper.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/org.mume.MMapper.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/org.mume.MMapper.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/org.mume.MMapper.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/org.mume.MMapper.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/org.mume.MMapper.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/org.mume.MMapper.png
/usr/share/licenses/mmapper
/usr/share/licenses/mmapper/COPYING.txt
/usr/share/metainfo/org.mume.MMapper.appdata.xml
/usr/bin/mmapper
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a/84f631d47899f035b105640caeb1dab7306dbb
/usr/share/applications/org.mume.MMapper.desktop
/usr/share/doc/mmapper
/usr/share/doc/mmapper/NEWS.txt
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/org.mume.MMapper.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/org.mume.MMapper.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/org.mume.MMapper.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/org.mume.MMapper.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/org.mume.MMapper.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/org.mume.MMapper.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/org.mume.MMapper.png
/usr/share/licenses/mmapper
/usr/share/licenses/mmapper/COPYING.txt
/usr/share/metainfo/org.mume.MMapper.appdata.xml

References

mmapper website

Summary

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