How To Install openclonk on Fedora 34

openclonk is Multiplayer action, tactics and skill game

Introduction

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

What is openclonk

Clonk is a multiplayer-action-tactics-skill game. It is often referred to as a mixture of The Settlers and Worms. In a simple 2D antfarm-style landscape, the player controls his crew of Clonks, small but robust humanoid beings. The game encourages free play but the normal goal is to either exploit valuable resources from the earth by building a mine or fight each other on an arena-like map.

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

Install openclonk 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 openclonk using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install openclonk

Install openclonk 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 openclonk using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install openclonk

How To Uninstall openclonk on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove openclonk

openclonk Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/c4group
/usr/bin/openclonk
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c/62f6217d6129342b03ad86cdacd7ed19d77351
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/9a9abe051733e442e6661f7ca5b71c70346a62
/usr/share/applications/openclonk.desktop
/usr/share/doc/openclonk
/usr/share/doc/openclonk/Credits.txt
/usr/share/doc/openclonk/README
/usr/share/doc/openclonk/TRADEMARK
/usr/share/doc/openclonk/Version.txt
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/openclonk.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/openclonk.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/openclonk.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/openclonk.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/openclonk.png
/usr/share/licenses/openclonk
/usr/share/licenses/openclonk/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/openclonk/COPYING-planet
/usr/share/metainfo/openclonk.appdata.xml

References

Summary

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