How To Install vavoom-doom-shareware on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vavoom-doom-shareware on Fedora 36.
What is vavoom-doom-shareware
Doom is id Software’s classic first person shooter follow-up to Wolfenstein 3D. The Doom engine is Open Source. The original Doom datafiles however are not Open Source. There is a gratis, but not Open Source shareware version available on the internet. This package contains an applications menu entry for playing Doom shareware using the vavoom engine. The first time you click this menu entry, it will offer to download and install the Doom shareware datafiles for you.
We can use yum or dnf to install vavoom-doom-shareware on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vavoom-doom-shareware.
Install vavoom-doom-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 vavoom-doom-shareware using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install vavoom-doom-shareware
Install vavoom-doom-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 vavoom-doom-shareware using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install vavoom-doom-shareware
How To Uninstall vavoom-doom-shareware on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the vavoom-doom-shareware package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove vavoom-doom-shareware
vavoom-doom-shareware Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/share/appdata/doom-shareware.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/doom-shareware.desktop
/usr/share/vavoom/doom.autodlrc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vavoom-doom-shareware on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
