How To Install chealpix on Fedora 34

chealpix is HEALPix C Bindings Library HEALPix C Bindings Library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install chealpix on Fedora 34.

What is `chealpix`

HEALPix is an acronym for Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization of a sphere. As suggested in the name, this pixelization produces a subdivision of a spherical surface in which each pixel covers the same surface area as every other pixel. This package contains the library for tools that use HEALPix C bindings. chealpix 3.50 8.fc34 x86_64 31 k healpix-3.50-8.fc34.src.rpm fedora HEALPix C Bindings Library http GPLv2+ HEALPix is an acronym for Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization of a sphere. As suggested in the name, this pixelization produces a subdivision of a spherical surface in which each pixel covers the same surface area as every other pixel. This package contains the library for tools that use HEALPix C bindings.

We can use yum or dnf to install chealpix on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install chealpix.

Install chealpix on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install chealpix

Install chealpix on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install chealpix using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install chealpix

How To Uninstall chealpix on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove chealpix

chealpix Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/88
/usr/lib/.build-id/88/f3ce3bd316173ce7fd6734119522402601ebed
/usr/lib/libchealpix.so.0
/usr/lib/libchealpix.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/licenses/chealpix
/usr/share/licenses/chealpix/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/chealpix/READ_Copyrights_Licenses.txt
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/95
/usr/lib/.build-id/95/1dc8afad5a21959e505fe2e4821d7b5db92b86
/usr/lib64/libchealpix.so.0
/usr/lib64/libchealpix.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/licenses/chealpix
/usr/share/licenses/chealpix/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/chealpix/READ_Copyrights_Licenses.txt

References

[chealpix website](http://healpix.jpl.nasa.gov/ http://healpix.jpl.nasa.gov/)

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install chealpix on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.