How To Install xdms on Fedora 34

xdms is Extracts Amiga DMS archives

Introduction

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

What is xdms

Extracts Amiga DMS (Disk Masher) archives which are compressed Amiga disk images. Xdms is particularly useful with Amiga emulators.

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

Install xdms 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 xdms using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xdms

Install xdms 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 xdms using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xdms

How To Uninstall xdms on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove xdms

xdms Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/xdms
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/05
/usr/lib/.build-id/05/b65eeff8dc472eaa7f49ae6cfb2c9b1f378e59
/usr/share/doc/xdms
/usr/share/doc/xdms/ChangeLog.txt
/usr/share/doc/xdms/xdms.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/xdms.1.gz

References

Summary

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