How To Install libretro-bsnes-mercury on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install libretro-bsnes-mercury in Fedora 36. libretro-bsnes-mercury is Fork of bsnes with various performance improvements

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libretro-bsnes-mercury on Fedora 36.

What is libretro-bsnes-mercury

bsnes-mercury is a fork of higan, aiming to restore some useful features that have been removed, as well as improving performance a bit. Maximum accuracy is still uncompromisable; anything that affects accuracy is optional and off by default.

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

Install libretro-bsnes-mercury 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 libretro-bsnes-mercury using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libretro-bsnes-mercury

Install libretro-bsnes-mercury 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 libretro-bsnes-mercury using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libretro-bsnes-mercury

How To Uninstall libretro-bsnes-mercury on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the libretro-bsnes-mercury package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libretro-bsnes-mercury

libretro-bsnes-mercury Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc/71a31f28ffdec671e9883acf17ebbe536d1921
/usr/lib64/libretro
/usr/lib64/libretro/bsnes-mercury_accuracy.libretro
/usr/lib64/libretro/bsnes_mercury_accuracy_libretro.so
/usr/share/doc/libretro-bsnes-mercury
/usr/share/doc/libretro-bsnes-mercury/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/libretro-bsnes-mercury
/usr/share/licenses/libretro-bsnes-mercury/LICENSE

References

Summary

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