How To Install asylum on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install asylum in Fedora 36. asylum is Game involving shooting anything that moves & collecting others

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install asylum on Fedora 36.

What is `asylum`

SDL Asylum is a C port of the computer game Asylum, which was written by Andy Southgate in 1994 for the Acorn Archimedes and is now public domain. The object is to find things that look like brain cells and shut them down! The game revolves around shooting anything which moves, collecting anything which doesn’t move and most importantly, finding your way to each of the eight pulsating neurons scattered through the immense map.

We can use yum or dnf to install asylum on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install asylum.

Install asylum on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install asylum using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install asylum

Install asylum on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install asylum using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install asylum

How To Uninstall asylum on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove asylum

asylum Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/asylum
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3/651ff15ad70471569dd66cb1e206765fd01896
/usr/share/appdata/asylum.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/asylum.desktop
/usr/share/asylum
/usr/share/asylum/Ego
/usr/share/asylum/Ego/Backfile
/usr/share/asylum/Ego/Brain
/usr/share/asylum/Ego/FSPAliens
/usr/share/asylum/Ego/FSPBlocks
/usr/share/asylum/Ego/Music1
/usr/share/asylum/Ego/Music2
/usr/share/asylum/Ego/Neurons
/usr/share/asylum/Ego/Neurons/Backfile
/usr/share/asylum/Ego/Neurons/Cell1
/usr/share/asylum/Ego/Neurons/Cell2
/usr/share/asylum/Ego/Neurons/Cell3
/usr/share/asylum/Ego/Neurons/Cell4
/usr/share/asylum/Ego/Neurons/Cell5
/usr/share/asylum/Ego/Neurons/Cell6
/usr/share/asylum/Ego/Neurons/Cell7
/usr/share/asylum/Ego/Neurons/Cell8
/usr/share/asylum/Id
/usr/share/asylum/Id/Backfile
/usr/share/asylum/Id/Brain
/usr/share/asylum/Id/FSPAliens
/usr/share/asylum/Id/FSPBlocks
/usr/share/asylum/Id/Music1
/usr/share/asylum/Id/Music2
/usr/share/asylum/Id/Neurons
/usr/share/asylum/Id/Neurons/Backfile
/usr/share/asylum/Id/Neurons/Cell1
/usr/share/asylum/Id/Neurons/Cell2
/usr/share/asylum/Id/Neurons/Cell3
/usr/share/asylum/Id/Neurons/Cell4
/usr/share/asylum/Id/Neurons/Cell5
/usr/share/asylum/Id/Neurons/Cell6
/usr/share/asylum/Id/Neurons/Cell7
/usr/share/asylum/Id/Neurons/Cell8
/usr/share/asylum/Psyche
/usr/share/asylum/Psyche/Backfile
/usr/share/asylum/Psyche/Brain
/usr/share/asylum/Psyche/FSPAliens
/usr/share/asylum/Psyche/FSPBlocks
/usr/share/asylum/Psyche/Music1
/usr/share/asylum/Psyche/Music2
/usr/share/asylum/Psyche/Neurons
/usr/share/asylum/Psyche/Neurons/Backfile
/usr/share/asylum/Psyche/Neurons/Cell1
/usr/share/asylum/Psyche/Neurons/Cell2
/usr/share/asylum/Psyche/Neurons/Cell3
/usr/share/asylum/Psyche/Neurons/Cell4
/usr/share/asylum/Psyche/Neurons/Cell5
/usr/share/asylum/Psyche/Neurons/Cell6
/usr/share/asylum/Psyche/Neurons/Cell7
/usr/share/asylum/Psyche/Neurons/Cell8
/usr/share/asylum/Resources
/usr/share/asylum/Resources/Backfile
/usr/share/asylum/Resources/Boardfile
/usr/share/asylum/Resources/ChatScreen
/usr/share/asylum/Resources/FSPBloke
/usr/share/asylum/Resources/FSPChars
/usr/share/asylum/Resources/FSPExplo
/usr/share/asylum/Resources/GameScreen
/usr/share/asylum/Resources/Music1
/usr/share/asylum/Resources/Music2
/usr/share/asylum/Voices
/usr/share/asylum/Voices/AtomExplo
/usr/share/asylum/Voices/BassDrum
/usr/share/asylum/Voices/BassHollow
/usr/share/asylum/Voices/BigZap
/usr/share/asylum/Voices/Bonus
/usr/share/asylum/Voices/Cannon
/usr/share/asylum/Voices/Cymbal
/usr/share/asylum/Voices/Dome
/usr/share/asylum/Voices/Explo
/usr/share/asylum/Voices/Hiss
/usr/share/asylum/Voices/Jump
/usr/share/asylum/Voices/NasalBass
/usr/share/asylum/Voices/NasalStr
/usr/share/asylum/Voices/Organ
/usr/share/asylum/Voices/Plink
/usr/share/asylum/Voices/PlinkHard
/usr/share/asylum/Voices/Raver
/usr/share/asylum/Voices/Rocket
/usr/share/asylum/Voices/SmallZap
/usr/share/asylum/Voices/Snare
/usr/share/asylum/Voices/Stunned
/usr/share/doc/asylum
/usr/share/doc/asylum/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/asylum/Instruct
/usr/share/doc/asylum/README
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/asylum.png
/var/games/asylum
/var/games/asylum/EgoHighScores
/var/games/asylum/ExtendedHighScores
/var/games/asylum/IdHighScores
/var/games/asylum/PsycheHighScores

References

asylum website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install asylum on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).