How To Install visualboyadvance-m-sdl on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install visualboyadvance-m-sdl in Fedora 36. visualboyadvance-m-sdl is SDL version (no GUI) for VBA-M, a high compatibility Gameboy Advance Emulator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install visualboyadvance-m-sdl on Fedora 36.

What is `visualboyadvance-m-sdl`

This package provides the no-GUI, SDL only version of VisualBoyAdvance-M. VisualBoyAdvance-M is a Nintendo Game Boy Emulator with high compatibility with commercial games. It emulates the Nintendo Game Boy Advance hand held console, in addition to the original Game Boy hand held systems and its Super and Color variants. VBA-M is a continued development of the now inactive VisualBoy Advance project, with many improvements from various developments of VBA.

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

Install visualboyadvance-m-sdl 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 visualboyadvance-m-sdl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install visualboyadvance-m-sdl

Install visualboyadvance-m-sdl 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 visualboyadvance-m-sdl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install visualboyadvance-m-sdl

How To Uninstall visualboyadvance-m-sdl on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the visualboyadvance-m-sdl package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove visualboyadvance-m-sdl

visualboyadvance-m-sdl Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/vbam.cfg
/usr/bin/vbam
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/46
/usr/lib/.build-id/46/8d328f4ec2959e667a38010eefa64d1292c0eb
/usr/share/doc/visualboyadvance-m-sdl
/usr/share/doc/visualboyadvance-m-sdl/ReadMe.SDL.txt
/usr/share/licenses/visualboyadvance-m-sdl
/usr/share/licenses/visualboyadvance-m-sdl/License.txt
/usr/share/licenses/visualboyadvance-m-sdl/gpl.txt
/usr/share/man/man6/vbam.6.gz

References

visualboyadvance-m-sdl website

Summary

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