How To Install ski on Fedora 34

ski is IA-64 user and system mode simulator

Introduction

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

What is ski

The Ski IA-64 user and system simulator originally developed by HP.

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

Install ski 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 ski using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ski

Install ski 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 ski using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ski

How To Uninstall ski on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove ski

ski Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/X11/app-defaults/XSki
/usr/bin/bski
/usr/bin/bskinc
/usr/bin/gski
/usr/bin/ski
/usr/bin/ski-fake-xterm
/usr/bin/xski
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/60
/usr/lib/.build-id/60/84f756f5843affa5b6cda685be026350cc8cbe
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad/0430b763ad0887ceaa4554a86d588f6bf3cd1f
/usr/share/doc/ski
/usr/share/doc/ski/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ski/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/ski/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ski/README
/usr/share/doc/ski/SkiManualMasterDoc.pdf
/usr/share/doc/ski/TODO
/usr/share/doc/ski/ski-notes.html
/usr/share/licenses/ski
/usr/share/licenses/ski/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/bski.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/bskinc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gski.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ski.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xski.1.gz
/usr/share/ski
/usr/share/ski/gski.glade

References

Summary

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