How To Install sopwith on Fedora 34

sopwith is SDL port of the sopwith game

Introduction

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

What is sopwith

This is a port of the classic computer game “Sopwith” to run on modern computers and operating systems.

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

Install sopwith 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 sopwith using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sopwith

Install sopwith 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 sopwith using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sopwith

How To Uninstall sopwith on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove sopwith

sopwith Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/sopwith
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/05
/usr/lib/.build-id/05/a258f5aaada92a6763db147ce0a6e38d1b7555
/usr/share/applications/sopwith.desktop
/usr/share/doc/sopwith
/usr/share/doc/sopwith/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/sopwith/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/sopwith/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/sopwith/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/sopwith/README
/usr/share/doc/sopwith/TODO
/usr/share/doc/sopwith/keys.txt
/usr/share/doc/sopwith/origdoc.txt
/usr/share/doc/sopwith/readme.txt
/usr/share/man/man6/sopwith.6.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/sopwith.png

References

Summary

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