How To Install vavoom-engine on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install vavoom-engine in Fedora 36. vavoom-engine is Enhanced Doom, Heretic, Hexen and Strife game engine

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vavoom-engine on Fedora 36.

What is vavoom-engine

Vavoom is an enhanced open-source port of Doom. Allowing you to play not only the classic 3D first-person shooter Doom, but also the Doom derived classics Heretic, Hexen and Strife. Compared to the original games it adds extra features such as translucency and freelook support and ofcourse the capability to play these classics under Linux.

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

Install vavoom-engine 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-engine using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vavoom-engine

Install vavoom-engine 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-engine using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vavoom-engine

How To Uninstall vavoom-engine on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the vavoom-engine package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove vavoom-engine

vavoom-engine Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/doom-shareware
/usr/bin/heretic-shareware
/usr/bin/hexen-demo
/usr/bin/strife-demo
/usr/bin/vavoom
/usr/bin/vavoom-dedicated
/usr/bin/vlaunch
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/59
/usr/lib/.build-id/59/4b0be24d78619fe3e8d03eb6ae5bd874a65cda
/usr/lib/.build-id/70
/usr/lib/.build-id/70/5ba0721bf862f9df46e997b7a152af767f542d
/usr/lib/.build-id/8d
/usr/lib/.build-id/8d/8659d309b1ba3448f40808fed31e1636b3b666
/usr/share/appdata/vavoom.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/vavoom.desktop
/usr/share/doc/vavoom-engine
/usr/share/doc/vavoom-engine/changes.log
/usr/share/doc/vavoom-engine/changes1.log
/usr/share/doc/vavoom-engine/changes2.log
/usr/share/doc/vavoom-engine/changes3.log
/usr/share/doc/vavoom-engine/vavoom.txt
/usr/share/doc/vavoom-engine/vcc.log
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/doom-logo.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/tux-b2f.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/vavoom.png
/usr/share/licenses/vavoom-engine
/usr/share/licenses/vavoom-engine/gnu.txt
/usr/share/man/man6/vavoom.6.gz
/usr/share/vavoom
/usr/share/vavoom/basev
/usr/share/vavoom/basev/common
/usr/share/vavoom/basev/common/basepak.pk3
/usr/share/vavoom/basev/doom
/usr/share/vavoom/basev/doom/basepak.pk3
/usr/share/vavoom/basev/doom1
/usr/share/vavoom/basev/doom1/base.txt
/usr/share/vavoom/basev/doom1/basepak.pk3
/usr/share/vavoom/basev/doom2
/usr/share/vavoom/basev/doom2/base.txt
/usr/share/vavoom/basev/doom2/basepak.pk3
/usr/share/vavoom/basev/games.txt
/usr/share/vavoom/basev/heretic
/usr/share/vavoom/basev/heretic/basepak.pk3
/usr/share/vavoom/basev/hexen
/usr/share/vavoom/basev/hexen/basepak.pk3
/usr/share/vavoom/basev/plutonia
/usr/share/vavoom/basev/plutonia/base.txt
/usr/share/vavoom/basev/plutonia/basepak.pk3
/usr/share/vavoom/basev/strife
/usr/share/vavoom/basev/strife/basepak.pk3
/usr/share/vavoom/basev/tnt
/usr/share/vavoom/basev/tnt/base.txt
/usr/share/vavoom/basev/tnt/basepak.pk3

References

Summary

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