How To Install fips on Fedora 34

fips is OpenGL-based FITS image viewer

Introduction

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

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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fips.

Install fips 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 fips using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fips

Install fips 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 fips using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fips

How To Uninstall fips on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove fips

fips Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/fips
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/74
/usr/lib/.build-id/74/39378e1f6b99f65c9e378bcc3e908c8ff592ed
/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

Summary

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