How To Install erfa on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install erfa on CentOS 8.
What is erfa
ERFA is a C library containing key algorithms for astronomy, and is based on the SOFA library published by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).
We can use yum or dnf to install erfa on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install erfa.
Install erfa on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install erfa using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install erfa
Install erfa on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install erfa using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install erfa
How To Uninstall erfa on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the erfa package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove erfa
erfa Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf/cfaf9b5f3f52200d7a738691c4924d455db543
/usr/lib64/liberfa.so.1
/usr/lib64/liberfa.so.1.8.0
/usr/share/doc/erfa
/usr/share/doc/erfa/INFO
/usr/share/doc/erfa/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/erfa
/usr/share/licenses/erfa/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install erfa on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.