How To Install moon-buggy on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install moon-buggy on Rocky Linux 8. moon-buggy is Drive and jump with some kind of car across the moon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install moon-buggy on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `moon-buggy`

Moon-buggy is a simple character graphics game where you drive some kind of car across the moon’s surface. Unfortunately there are dangerous craters there. Fortunately your car can jump over them! The game has some resemblance of the classic arcade game moon-patrol which was released in 1982. A clone of this game was relased for the Commodore C64 in 1983. The present, ASCII art version of moon-buggy was written many years later by Jochen Voss.

We can use yum or dnf to install moon-buggy on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install moon-buggy.

Install moon-buggy on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install moon-buggy using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install moon-buggy

Install moon-buggy on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install moon-buggy using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install moon-buggy

How To Uninstall moon-buggy on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the moon-buggy package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove moon-buggy

moon-buggy Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/moon-buggy
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/54
/usr/lib/.build-id/54/e14bbb691fc5b5575e4b297f47e633bcdbfcc1
/usr/share/applications/moon-buggy-sound.desktop
/usr/share/applications/moon-buggy.desktop
/usr/share/doc/moon-buggy
/usr/share/doc/moon-buggy/ANNOUNCE
/usr/share/doc/moon-buggy/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/moon-buggy/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/moon-buggy/README
/usr/share/doc/moon-buggy/README.sound
/usr/share/doc/moon-buggy/THANKS
/usr/share/info/moon-buggy.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/moon-buggy
/usr/share/licenses/moon-buggy/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man6/moon-buggy.6.gz
/usr/share/moon-buggy
/usr/share/moon-buggy/sounds
/usr/share/moon-buggy/sounds/crash.wav
/usr/share/moon-buggy/sounds/jump.wav
/usr/share/moon-buggy/sounds/laser.wav
/usr/share/pixmaps/moon-buggy.png
/var/games/moon-buggy
/var/games/moon-buggy/mbscore

References

moon-buggy website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install moon-buggy on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.