How To Install vavoom on Fedora 34

vavoom is Enhanced Doom, Heretic, Hexen and Strife source port - meta package

Introduction

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

What is vavoom

Vavoom is an enhanced open-source port of Doom. The “vavoom” meta-package installs vavoom-engine, and launchers / menu-entries to download and play doom-shareware, heretic-shareware, hexen-demo and strife-demo.

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

Install vavoom 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 vavoom using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vavoom

Install vavoom 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 vavoom using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vavoom

How To Uninstall vavoom on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove vavoom

vavoom Package Contents on Fedora 34

References

Summary

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