How To Install sameboy on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install sameboy in Fedora 36. sameboy is Game Boy and Game Boy Color emulator written in C

Introduction

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

What is sameboy

SameBoy is an open source Game Boy (DMG) and Game Boy Color (CGB) emulator, written in portable C. It has a native Cocoa front-end for MacOS, an SDL front-end for other operating systems, and a libretro core. It also includes a text-based debugger with expression evaluation.

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

Install sameboy 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 sameboy using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sameboy

Install sameboy 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 sameboy using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sameboy

How To Uninstall sameboy on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove sameboy

sameboy Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/sameboy
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/af
/usr/lib/.build-id/af/e8c976efab757d40a7d1fafd1f77d8cb0b2abb
/usr/share/applications/sameboy-terminal.desktop
/usr/share/applications/sameboy.desktop
/usr/share/doc/sameboy
/usr/share/doc/sameboy/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/sameboy.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/mimetypes/x-gameboy-color-rom.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/mimetypes/x-gameboy-rom.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/sameboy.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/mimetypes/x-gameboy-color-rom.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/mimetypes/x-gameboy-rom.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/sameboy.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/mimetypes/x-gameboy-color-rom.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/mimetypes/x-gameboy-rom.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/sameboy.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/mimetypes/x-gameboy-color-rom.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/mimetypes/x-gameboy-rom.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/sameboy.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/mimetypes/x-gameboy-color-rom.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/mimetypes/x-gameboy-rom.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/sameboy.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/mimetypes/x-gameboy-color-rom.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/mimetypes/x-gameboy-rom.png
/usr/share/licenses/sameboy
/usr/share/licenses/sameboy/LICENSE
/usr/share/mime/packages/sameboy.xml
/usr/share/sameboy
/usr/share/sameboy/LICENSE
/usr/share/sameboy/Shaders
/usr/share/sameboy/Shaders/AAOmniScaleLegacy.fsh
/usr/share/sameboy/Shaders/AAScale2x.fsh
/usr/share/sameboy/Shaders/AAScale4x.fsh
/usr/share/sameboy/Shaders/Bilinear.fsh
/usr/share/sameboy/Shaders/CRT.fsh
/usr/share/sameboy/Shaders/HQ2x.fsh
/usr/share/sameboy/Shaders/LCD.fsh
/usr/share/sameboy/Shaders/MasterShader.fsh
/usr/share/sameboy/Shaders/MonoLCD.fsh
/usr/share/sameboy/Shaders/NearestNeighbor.fsh
/usr/share/sameboy/Shaders/OmniScale.fsh
/usr/share/sameboy/Shaders/OmniScaleLegacy.fsh
/usr/share/sameboy/Shaders/Scale2x.fsh
/usr/share/sameboy/Shaders/Scale4x.fsh
/usr/share/sameboy/Shaders/SmoothBilinear.fsh
/usr/share/sameboy/agb_boot.bin
/usr/share/sameboy/background.bmp
/usr/share/sameboy/cgb_boot.bin
/usr/share/sameboy/dmg_boot.bin
/usr/share/sameboy/registers.sym
/usr/share/sameboy/sgb2_boot.bin
/usr/share/sameboy/sgb_boot.bin

References

Summary

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