How To Install quake3-demo on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install quake3-demo in Fedora 36. quake3-demo is Quake 3 Arena tournament 3D shooter game demo installer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install quake3-demo on Fedora 36.

What is `quake3-demo`

Quake 3 Arena tournament 3D shooter game demo installer. The Quake3 engine is Open Source and as such is available as part of Fedora. The original Quake3 datafiles however are not Open Source and thus are not available as part of Fedora. There is a gratis, but not Open Source demo available on the internet. This package installs an applications menu entry for playing the Quake3 Arena demo. The first time you click this menu entry, it will offer to download and install the Quake 3 demo datafiles for you.

We can use yum or dnf to install quake3-demo on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install quake3-demo.

Install quake3-demo 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 quake3-demo using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install quake3-demo

Install quake3-demo 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 quake3-demo using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install quake3-demo

How To Uninstall quake3-demo on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the quake3-demo package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove quake3-demo

quake3-demo Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/quake3-demo
/usr/share/appdata/quake3.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/quake3.desktop
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/quake3.png
/usr/share/quake3/quake3.autodlrc

References

quake3-demo website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install quake3-demo on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).