How To Install nethack on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install nethack in Fedora 36. nethack is A rogue-like single player dungeon exploration game

Introduction

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

What is `nethack`

NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide variety of computer systems, with a variety of graphical and text interfaces all using the same game engine. Unlike many other Dungeons & Dragons-inspired games, the emphasis in NetHack is on discovering the detail of the dungeon and not simply killing everything in sight - in fact, killing everything in sight is a good way to die quickly. Each game presents a different landscape - the random number generator provides an essentially unlimited number of variations of the dungeon and its denizens to be discovered by the player in one of a number of characters

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

Install nethack 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 nethack using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nethack

Install nethack 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 nethack using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nethack

How To Uninstall nethack on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove nethack

nethack Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/nethack
/usr/games/nethack
/usr/games/nethack/NetHack.ad
/usr/games/nethack/license
/usr/games/nethack/nethack
/usr/games/nethack/nhdat
/usr/games/nethack/pet_mark.xbm
/usr/games/nethack/pilemark.xbm
/usr/games/nethack/recover
/usr/games/nethack/rip.xpm
/usr/games/nethack/symbols
/usr/games/nethack/sysconf
/usr/games/nethack/x11tiles
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7/5989e3ae8ad8c3618884e9600d94e79b92a57a
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa/18404861ead15d261a72748b820f68a4536b53
/usr/share/applications/nethack.desktop
/usr/share/doc/nethack
/usr/share/doc/nethack/Guidebook.txt
/usr/share/doc/nethack/README
/usr/share/doc/nethack/dgn_comp.txt
/usr/share/doc/nethack/dlb.txt
/usr/share/doc/nethack/history
/usr/share/doc/nethack/lev_comp.txt
/usr/share/doc/nethack/license
/usr/share/doc/nethack/makedefs.txt
/usr/share/doc/nethack/mn.txt
/usr/share/doc/nethack/mnh.txt
/usr/share/doc/nethack/nethack.txt
/usr/share/doc/nethack/opthelp
/usr/share/doc/nethack/recover.txt
/usr/share/doc/nethack/wizhelp
/usr/share/man/man6/dgn_comp.6.gz
/usr/share/man/man6/dlb.6.gz
/usr/share/man/man6/lev_comp.6.gz
/usr/share/man/man6/makedefs.6.gz
/usr/share/man/man6/nethack.6.gz
/usr/share/man/man6/recover.6.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/nethack.xpm
/var/games/nethack
/var/games/nethack/logfile
/var/games/nethack/perm
/var/games/nethack/record
/var/games/nethack/save
/var/games/nethack/xlogfile

References

nethack website

Summary

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