How To Install flare-engine on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install flare-engine in Fedora 36. flare-engine is A single player, 2D-isometric, action Role-Playing Engine

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install flare-engine on Fedora 36.

What is `flare-engine`

Flare (Free Libre Action Roleplaying Engine) is a simple game engine built to handle a very specific kind of game a re-implementation of an existing game or engine. It is a tribute to and exploration of the action RPG genre. Rather than building a very abstract, robust game engine, the goal of this project is to build several real games and harvest an engine from the common, reusable code. The first game, in progress, is a fantasy dungeon crawl. Flare uses simple file formats (INI style config files) for most of the game data, allowing anyone to easily modify game contents. Open formats are preferred (png, ogg). The game code is C++. This package contains the engine only.

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

Install flare-engine 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 flare-engine using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install flare-engine

Install flare-engine 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 flare-engine using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install flare-engine

How To Uninstall flare-engine on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the flare-engine package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove flare-engine

flare-engine Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/flare
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/74
/usr/lib/.build-id/74/95f8703339068330e5200b5214c671263bdf9b
/usr/share/applications/flare.desktop
/usr/share/doc/flare-engine
/usr/share/doc/flare-engine/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/flare-engine/CREDITS.engine.txt
/usr/share/doc/flare-engine/README.engine.md
/usr/share/doc/flare-engine/RELEASE_NOTES.txt
/usr/share/flare
/usr/share/flare/mods
/usr/share/flare/mods/default
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/cutscenes
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/cutscenes/credits.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/cutscenes/intro.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/engine
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/engine/classes.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/engine/combat.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/engine/combat_text.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/engine/damage_types.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/engine/death_penalty.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/engine/default_music.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/engine/elements.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/engine/equip_flags.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/engine/font_colors.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/engine/font_settings.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/engine/gameplay.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/engine/icons.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/engine/languages.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/engine/misc.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/engine/primary_stats.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/engine/resolutions.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/engine/tileset_config.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/engine/tooltips.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/fonts
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/fonts/LiberationSans-Regular.ttf
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/fonts/unifont-10.0.06.ttf
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/credits
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/credits/flare_default.png
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/credits/oga.png
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/credits/tiled.png
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/icons
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/icons/icons.png
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/logo
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/logo/icon.png
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/menus
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/menus/buttons
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/menus/buttons/button_default.png
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/menus/buttons/button_x.png
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/menus/buttons/checkbox_default.png
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/menus/buttons/down.png
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/menus/buttons/left.png
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/menus/buttons/listbox_default.png
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/menus/buttons/right.png
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/menus/buttons/scrollbar_default.png
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/menus/buttons/slider_default.png
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/menus/buttons/up.png
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/menus/compass_iso.png
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/menus/compass_ortho.png
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/menus/config.png
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/menus/confirm_bg.png
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/menus/dev_console.png
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/menus/entity_hidden.png
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/menus/logo.png
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/menus/movement_type.png
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/menus/movement_type_joystick.png
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/menus/movement_type_keyboard.png
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/menus/movement_type_mouse.png
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/menus/tab_active.png
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/images/menus/tab_inactive.png
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.be.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.bg.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.ca.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.cs.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.de.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.el.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.es.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.eu.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.fi.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.fr.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.gd.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.gl.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.hu.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.id.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.it.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.ja.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.ko.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.nb.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.nl.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.pl.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.pot
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.pt.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.pt_BR.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.ru.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.sk.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.sv.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.uk.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.vi.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.zh.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/data.zh_TW.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.be.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.bg.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.ca.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.cs.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.de.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.el.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.es.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.eu.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.fi.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.fr.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.gd.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.gl.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.hu.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.id.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.it.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.ja.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.ko.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.nb.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.nl.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.pl.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.pot
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.pt.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.pt_BR.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.ru.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.sk.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.sv.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.uk.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.vi.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.zh.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/languages/engine.zh_TW.po
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/menus
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/menus/config.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/menus/confirm.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/menus/devconsole.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/menus/fps.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/menus/gameload.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/menus/gamenew.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/menus/gametitle.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/default/menus/movement_type.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/gcw0_defaults
/usr/share/flare/mods/gcw0_defaults/engine
/usr/share/flare/mods/gcw0_defaults/engine/default_keybindings.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/gcw0_defaults/engine/default_settings.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/gcw0_defaults/settings.txt
/usr/share/flare/mods/mods.txt
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/flare.svg
/usr/share/man/man6/flare.6.gz

References

flare-engine website

Summary

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