How To Install gosnake on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install gosnake in Fedora 36. gosnake is The Console Snake Game

Introduction

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

What is `gosnake`

GoSnake is a simple yet nice implementation of the well known snake game. It is designed to run under the GNU/Linux console (including terminal emulators). The aim of the game is simple it around to eat food without hitting walls, or colliding with itself. The game includes many levels with an option to play levels randomly, and a high score board.

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

Install gosnake 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 gosnake using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gosnake

Install gosnake 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 gosnake using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gosnake

How To Uninstall gosnake on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove gosnake

gosnake Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/gosnake
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb/266b0a40e73a7031ac2d98383e350747372da6
/usr/share/doc/gosnake
/usr/share/doc/gosnake/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gosnake/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/gosnake/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/gosnake/README
/usr/share/info/gosnake.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/gosnake
/usr/share/licenses/gosnake/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/gosnake.1.gz

References

gosnake website

Summary

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