How To Install flasm on Fedora 34

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install flasm

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install flasm

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is flasm and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running Fedora 34. This guide was written specifically with a server running Fedora 34 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install flasm on Fedora 34. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install flasm on Fedora 34 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install flasm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install flasm

Install flasm on Fedora 34 using yum

Because flasm is available in Fedora 34’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install flasm package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install flasm

How to upgrade (update) a single package flasm using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like flasm in this example you should use the following command:

yum update flasm

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade flasm

How to Upgrade flasm on Fedora 34 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update flasm

How To remove flasm from Fedora 34

To uninstall only the flasm package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove flasm

Extra info and code examples

Flasm disassembles your entire SWF including all the timelines and events. Looking at disassembly, you learn how the Flash compiler works. You can also do some optimization on the disassembled code by hand or adjust the code as you wish. Flasm can then re-assemble the bytecode into a new SWF. It is also possible to embed Flasm actions in your ActionScript, making optimization of large projects more comfortable. Flasm is not a decompiler. What you get is the human readable representation of SWF bytecode, not ActionScript source. Flasm can also compress and decompress SWF files. Flasm does not and may never work with Flash 9 files since Flash 9 is a new virtual machine and support for it would mean a full rewrite.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install flasm using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the flasm from Fedora 34.

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