How To Install glaxium on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install glaxium in Fedora 36. glaxium is An OpenGL space shooter

Introduction

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

What is glaxium

Glaxium is an OpenGL-based space-ship “shoot-em-up” styled game. It is designed to provide the same feel as the old 2D games of that type, but with 3D for the special effects.

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

Install glaxium 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 glaxium using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install glaxium

Install glaxium 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 glaxium using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install glaxium

How To Uninstall glaxium on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove glaxium

glaxium Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/glaxium
/usr/bin/glaxium-wrapper
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/5f28e2d096752a7eccd54873f7c6a5a0b84d68
/usr/share/appdata/glaxium.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/glaxium.desktop
/usr/share/doc/glaxium
/usr/share/doc/glaxium/CHANGES.txt
/usr/share/doc/glaxium/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/glaxium/README.txt
/usr/share/glaxium
/usr/share/glaxium/samples
/usr/share/glaxium/samples/detection.wav
/usr/share/glaxium/samples/explode1.wav
/usr/share/glaxium/samples/explode2.wav
/usr/share/glaxium/samples/gameover.wav
/usr/share/glaxium/samples/glax.xm
/usr/share/glaxium/samples/glax3.xm
/usr/share/glaxium/samples/glups.wav
/usr/share/glaxium/samples/powerup.wav
/usr/share/glaxium/samples/tachefire.wav
/usr/share/glaxium/samples/tir.wav
/usr/share/glaxium/samples/welcome.wav
/usr/share/glaxium/textures
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/bandit1.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/bandit2.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/board.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/bord.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/border.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/border2.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/camouflage.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/capsule_bomb.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/capsule_invul.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/capsule_power.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/capsule_shield.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/chain.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/chars.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/cube.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/deadtache.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/effect1.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/fighter2.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/floor.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/floor1.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/floor2.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/floor3.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/floor4.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/floormap.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/floormap1.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/floormap2.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/floormap3.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/floormap4.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/fumee1.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/fumee2.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/fumee3.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/galaxy.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/gameover.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/glax2.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/iflicla.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/mark.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/missile.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/myship.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/piege.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/ship1.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/space0.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/space1.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/space2.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/space3.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/sphere.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/tache.png
/usr/share/glaxium/textures/thunder.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/glaxium.png
/usr/share/man/man6/glaxium.6.gz

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Summary

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