How To Install prboom on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install prboom in Fedora 36. prboom is Open source port of the DOOM game engine

Introduction

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

What is prboom

prboom is an open-source port of Doom, the classic 3D first-person shooter game. It totally outclassed any 3D world games that preceded it, with amazing speed, flexibility, and outstanding gameplay. The specs to the game were released, and thousands of extra levels were written by fans of the game; even today new levels are written for Doom faster then any one person could play them.

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

Install prboom 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 prboom using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install prboom

Install prboom 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 prboom using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install prboom

How To Uninstall prboom on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove prboom

prboom Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/prboom
/usr/bin/prboom-game-server
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/71
/usr/lib/.build-id/71/9af3e90420af103c2423e5a333bddd1a5dbaac
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5/db74da3e195742752f2bc84bb9aadbc168392a
/usr/share/doc/prboom
/usr/share/doc/prboom/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/prboom/MBF.txt
/usr/share/doc/prboom/MBFFAQ.txt
/usr/share/doc/prboom/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/prboom/README
/usr/share/doc/prboom/README.compat
/usr/share/doc/prboom/README.demos
/usr/share/doc/prboom/boom.txt
/usr/share/doom
/usr/share/doom/prboom.wad
/usr/share/licenses/prboom
/usr/share/licenses/prboom/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/boom.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man6/prboom-game-server.6.gz
/usr/share/man/man6/prboom.6.gz

References

Summary

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