How To Install CriticalMass on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install CriticalMass in Fedora 36. CriticalMass is SDL/OpenGL space shoot’em up game also known as critter

Introduction

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

What is CriticalMass

Critical Mass (aka Critter) is an SDL/OpenGL space shoot’em up game. Your world has been infested by an aggressive army of space critters. Overrun and unprepared, your government was unable to defend its precious resources. As a last effort to recapture some of the “goodies”, you have been placed into a tiny spacecraft and sent after them.

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

Install CriticalMass 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 CriticalMass using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install CriticalMass

Install CriticalMass 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 CriticalMass using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install CriticalMass

How To Uninstall CriticalMass on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove CriticalMass

CriticalMass Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/critter
/usr/bin/critter-wrapper
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/94
/usr/lib/.build-id/94/f1a1659999b6258f7de967036a2ce6b07be376
/usr/share/Critical_Mass
/usr/share/Critical_Mass/resource.dat
/usr/share/appdata/CriticalMass.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/CriticalMass.desktop
/usr/share/doc/CriticalMass
/usr/share/doc/CriticalMass/Readme.html
/usr/share/doc/CriticalMass/TODO
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/critter.png
/usr/share/licenses/CriticalMass
/usr/share/licenses/CriticalMass/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man6/critter.6.gz

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Summary

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