How To Install fips on CentOS 8

fips is OpenGL-based FITS image viewer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fips on CentOS 8.

What is `fips`

FIPS is a cross-platform FITS viewer with responsive user interface. Unlike other FITS viewers FIPS uses GPU hardware via OpenGL to provide usual functionality such as zooming, panning and level adjustments. OpenGL 2.1 and later is supported. FIPS supports all 2D image formats (except for floating point formats on OpenGL 2.1). FITS image extension has basic limited support. FITS image extension has basic limited support.

We can use yum or dnf to install fips on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fips.

Install fips 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 fips using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fips

Install fips 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 fips using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fips

How To Uninstall fips on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the fips package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fips

fips Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/fips
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef/afce1a69ab431d925ce98c4e110b560df2556f
/usr/share/applications/space.fips.Fips.desktop
/usr/share/doc/fips
/usr/share/doc/fips/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/space.fips.Fips.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/space.fips.Fips.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/space.fips.Fips.svg
/usr/share/licenses/fips
/usr/share/licenses/fips/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/metainfo/space.fips.Fips.metainfo.xml

References

fips website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fips on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.