How To Install rott-shareware on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install rott-shareware in Fedora 36. rott-shareware is Rise of the Triad shareware version

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rott-shareware on Fedora 36.

What is `rott-shareware`

This is the icculus.org Linux port of Apogee’s classic 3d shooter Rise of the Triad (RotT), which has been released under the GPL by Apogee. This version is enhanced with the “high” resolution rendering from the winrott port. This package contains the engine for the shareware version of RotT. In order to play the shareware version, you will need the shareware datafiles. Which can be freely downloaded from Apogee/3DRealms, but cannot be distributed as a part of Fedora. When you start RotT for the first time it will offer to download the datafiles for you.

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

Install rott-shareware 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 rott-shareware using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rott-shareware

Install rott-shareware 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 rott-shareware using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rott-shareware

How To Uninstall rott-shareware on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the rott-shareware package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove rott-shareware

rott-shareware Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/rott-shareware
/usr/bin/rott-shareware.bin
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/88
/usr/lib/.build-id/88/386881081119fb6bbf3331ffc4ba9ec917704f
/usr/share/appdata/rott-shareware.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/rott-shareware.desktop
/usr/share/doc/rott-shareware
/usr/share/doc/rott-shareware/13todo.txt
/usr/share/doc/rott-shareware/README
/usr/share/doc/rott-shareware/cheats.txt
/usr/share/doc/rott-shareware/cmdline.txt
/usr/share/doc/rott-shareware/hacker.txt
/usr/share/doc/rott-shareware/readme.txt
/usr/share/doc/rott-shareware/wad.txt
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/rott.png
/usr/share/licenses/rott-shareware
/usr/share/licenses/rott-shareware/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man6/rott-shareware.6.gz
/usr/share/rott
/usr/share/rott/rott.autodlrc

References

rott-shareware website

Summary

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