How To Install joystick-support on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install joystick-support on Fedora 36.
What is joystick-support
By default the joystick and game pad drivers are not loaded at boot time. Nor are they installed by default. Installing this package will load the main joystick and game pad drivers as part of the install, will bring in kernel-modules-extra if it is needed (which it currently is), and will set things so that they will be loaded during future boots.
We can use yum or dnf to install joystick-support on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install joystick-support.
Install joystick-support 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 joystick-support using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install joystick-support
Install joystick-support 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 joystick-support using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install joystick-support
How To Uninstall joystick-support on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the joystick-support package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove joystick-support
joystick-support Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/lib/modules-load.d/joystick.conf
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install joystick-support on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
