How To Install prboom-plus on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install prboom-plus in Fedora 36. prboom-plus is Free enhanced DOOM engine

Introduction

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

What is `prboom-plus`

Doom is a classic 3D shoot-em-up game. PrBoom+ is a Doom source port developed from the original PrBoom project by Andrey Budko. The target of the project is to extend the original port with features that are necessary or useful.

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

Install prboom-plus 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-plus using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install prboom-plus

Install prboom-plus 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-plus using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install prboom-plus

How To Uninstall prboom-plus on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove prboom-plus

prboom-plus Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/prboom-plus
/usr/bin/prboom-plus-game-server
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/03
/usr/lib/.build-id/03/a1a03bc2267e371b1edbd0101210de9ad469fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/95
/usr/lib/.build-id/95/cc971f25c8a79582c3330c115f23855be2baec
/usr/share/applications/prboom-plus.desktop
/usr/share/doc/prboom-plus
/usr/share/doc/prboom-plus/DeePBSPV4specs.txt
/usr/share/doc/prboom-plus/MBF.txt
/usr/share/doc/prboom-plus/MBFFAQ.txt
/usr/share/doc/prboom-plus/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/prboom-plus/README.command-line
/usr/share/doc/prboom-plus/README.compat
/usr/share/doc/prboom-plus/README.demos
/usr/share/doc/prboom-plus/boom.txt
/usr/share/doc/prboom-plus/prboom-plus-usage.txt
/usr/share/doc/prboom-plus/umapinfo.txt
/usr/share/licenses/prboom-plus
/usr/share/licenses/prboom-plus/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/prboom-plus.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man6/prboom-plus-game-server.6.gz
/usr/share/man/man6/prboom-plus.6.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/prboom-plus.svg
/usr/share/prboom-plus/prboom-plus.wad

References

prboom-plus website

Summary

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