How To Install urbanterror on Fedora 34

urbanterror is FPS best be described as a Hollywood tactical shooter

Introduction

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

What is urbanterror

Urban Terror could best be described as a Hollywood tactical shooter; it is realism based to a certain extent (environments/weapons/player models), but also goes by the motto “fun over realism” (fast gameplay and lots of action). This combination of reality and action results in a very unique, enjoyable and addictive game. Urban Terror uses the GPL licensed ioquake3 engine, however the Urban Terror datafiles are not freely redistributable. This package will install an Urban Terror menu entry, which will automatically download the necessary datafiles (2GB!) the first time you start Urban Terror.

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

Install urbanterror 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 urbanterror using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install urbanterror

Install urbanterror 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 urbanterror using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install urbanterror

How To Uninstall urbanterror on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove urbanterror

urbanterror Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/urbanterror
/usr/share/appdata/urbanterror.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/urbanterror.desktop
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/urbanterror.png
/usr/share/quake3/urbanterror.autodlrc

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Summary

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