How To Install shippy on Fedora 34

shippy is Space invaders / Galaxians like game with power-ups

Introduction

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

What is `shippy`

Shippy1984 is a small, portable game designed to bring back nostalgia for the ways games used to be made–addicting as hell! Mash buttons on your way to the high score! Shippy1984 is designed from the ground up for the avid casual gamer who feels left behind by the technological overload of today’s games! No longer! Shippy1984 is the game you have been waiting for!

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

Install shippy 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 shippy using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install shippy

Install shippy 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 shippy using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install shippy

How To Uninstall shippy on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove shippy

shippy Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/shippy-sdl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/4329e4ae385546978453a3507cac9a33aec462

References

shippy website

Summary

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