How To Install zork on Fedora 34

zork is Public Domain original DUNGEON game (Zork I)

Introduction

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

What is zork

Public Domain source code to the original DUNGEON game (Zork I). Released to the PD by Infocom. Includes source files, headers, and information. This version of Dungeon was modified from FORTRAN to C. The original was written in DEC FORTRAN, translated from MDL. It was then translated to f77 for UN*X systems, from which it was translated to C. The C translation was done with the help of f2c, the FORTRAN to C translator written by David Gay (AT&T Bell Labs), Stu Feldman (Bellcore), Mark Maimone (Carnegie-Mellon University), and Norm Schryer (AT&T Bell Labs).

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

Install zork 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 zork using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install zork

Install zork 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 zork using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install zork

How To Uninstall zork on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove zork

zork Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/zork
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea/268991ce2dcbc5b6e87eeefa3baabe0d828123
/usr/share/doc/zork
/usr/share/doc/zork/README.md
/usr/share/doc/zork/history
/usr/share/licenses/zork
/usr/share/licenses/zork/readme.txt
/usr/share/man/man6/dungeon.6.gz
/usr/share/man/man6/zork.6.gz
/usr/share/zork/dtextc.dat

References

Summary

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