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title: Install Micropolis on Red Hat Enterprise Linux using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of Micropolis for on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  - Micropolis, the original city simulation game from Maxis Software
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/micropolis/rhel
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# Install Micropolis on **Red Hat Enterprise Linux**

# Micropolis

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#### Micropolis, the original city simulation game from Maxis Software

Micropolis, the original award winning city simulation game from
Maxis Software, now runs on powerful Unix workstations with X11! Now
it's souped up, and even supports networked multi user collaboration!
Multi Player Micropolis is designed to be a fun cooperative educational
experience!

Micropolis is a colorful animated interactive system simulation
game, providing a set of rules and tools for planning and building a
complex dynamic simulated city. Several people on different X11
workstations can participate in the same city, cooperating and
coordinating their actions across the network.

Working together, you can zone land use, hook up the power grid,
build roads, bridges, parks and stadiums, raise taxes, and even summon
disasters, causing the city to grow and thrive, or crumble and die. It's
a creative, entertaining way to develop your political skills!

SimCity designed and implemented by Will Wright,
Copyright (C) 2002 by Electronic Arts.
Unix porting, optimization and TCL/Tk user interface design
by Don Hopkins (dhopkins@DonHopkins.com), for DUX Software.
Ported to OLPC Fedora Linux by Don Hopkins.

SimCity, Unix Version. This game was released for the Unix platform
in or about 1990 and has been modified for inclusion in the One Laptop
Per Child program. Copyright (C) 1989 - 2007 Electronic Arts Inc.

### Package name

* micropolis

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### License

* GPL-3.0+

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### Last updated

* 10 June 2024 - latest/stable
* 10 June 2024 - latest/edge

This snap hasn't been updated in a while. It might be unmaintained and have stability or security issues.

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### Websites

* [wiki.laptop.org](http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Micropolis "http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Micropolis")

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### Source code

* [github.com/diddlesnaps/micropolis](https://github.com/diddlesnaps/micropolis "https://github.com/diddlesnaps/micropolis")

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### Report a bug

* [github.com/diddlesnaps/micropolis/issues](https://github.com/diddlesnaps/micropolis/issues "https://github.com/diddlesnaps/micropolis/issues")

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/install/micropolis/rhel#report-snap-modal)

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## Enable snaps on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and install Micropolis

Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.

Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions.

### Enable snapd

Snap is available for [Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8](https://www.redhat.com/en/enterprise-linux-8) and RHEL 7, from the 7.6 release onward.

The packages for RHEL 7, RHEL 8, and RHEL 9 are in each distribution’s respective [Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) (EPEL) repository. The instructions for adding this repository diverge slightly between RHEL 7, RHEL 8 and RHEL 9, which is why they’re listed separately below.

The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 9** with the following command:

```
sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf upgrade
```

The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 8** with the following command:

```
sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf upgrade
```

The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 7** with the following command:

```
sudo rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
```

Adding the *optional* and *extras* repositories is also recommended:

```
sudo subscription-manager repos --enable "rhel-*-optional-rpms" --enable "rhel-*-extras-rpms"
sudo yum update
```

Snap can now be installed as follows:

```
sudo yum install snapd
```

Once installed, the *systemd* unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled:

```
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
```

To enable *classic* snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between `/var/lib/snapd/snap` and `/snap`:

```
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
```

Either log out and back in again or restart your system to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.

### Install Micropolis

To install Micropolis, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install micropolis
```

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