How To Install scottfree on Fedora 34

scottfree is Interpreter for Scott Adams format text adventure games

Introduction

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

What is scottfree

ScottFree is an interpreter for Scott-Adams-format text adventure games (remember those?). It reads and executes TRS-80 format data files. Most Adventure International Games are distributed as shareware and are available from http

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

Install scottfree 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 scottfree using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install scottfree

Install scottfree 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 scottfree using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install scottfree

How To Uninstall scottfree on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove scottfree

scottfree Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/scottfree
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/29
/usr/lib/.build-id/29/a25c3bbb566e2dfb3247933127fefa76e3d2e4
/usr/share/doc/scottfree
/usr/share/doc/scottfree/Definition
/usr/share/doc/scottfree/README
/usr/share/man/man6/scottfree.6.gz

References

Summary

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