How To Install visualboyadvance-m on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install visualboyadvance-m in Fedora 36. visualboyadvance-m is High compatibility Gameboy Advance Emulator combining VBA builds

Introduction

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

What is `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 on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install visualboyadvance-m.

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

sudo dnf -y install visualboyadvance-m

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

sudo yum -y install visualboyadvance-m

How To Uninstall visualboyadvance-m on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove visualboyadvance-m

visualboyadvance-m Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/visualboyadvance-m
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f/9201f567394fb0fa88c2f80914636f8adeb462
/usr/share/appdata/wxvbam.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/wxvbam.desktop
/usr/share/doc/visualboyadvance-m
/usr/share/doc/visualboyadvance-m/ips.htm
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/vbam.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/vbam.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/vbam.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/vbam.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/vbam.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/vbam.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/vbam.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/vbam.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/vbam.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/vbam.svg
/usr/share/licenses/visualboyadvance-m
/usr/share/licenses/visualboyadvance-m/License.txt
/usr/share/licenses/visualboyadvance-m/gpl.txt
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/br/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca_ES/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/da_DK/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/el_GR/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_BR/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_419/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_AR/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_CL/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_CO/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_CR/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_MX/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_PE/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_PR/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_US/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_VE/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/fil/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr_CA/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/haw/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/he_IL/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu_HU/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/id_ID/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja_JP/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/jv/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko_KR/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms_MY/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl_NL/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl_PL/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_PT/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru_RU/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk_SK/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/su/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/tk/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh-Hans/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN.GB2312/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_SG/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW.Big5/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/wxvbam.mo
/usr/share/man/man6/visualboyadvance-m.6.gz
/usr/share/vbam
/usr/share/vbam/vba-over.ini

References

visualboyadvance-m website

Summary

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