How To Install indistarter on Fedora 34

indistarter is GUI to start, stop and control an INDI server

Introduction

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

What is indistarter

Indistarter is a user interface to run a INDI server. You can configure different profile for your astronomical equipment. The INDI server can be launched locally or remotely on another computer. In this last case a ssh tunnel is established to allow local client connection.

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

Install indistarter 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 indistarter using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install indistarter

Install indistarter 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 indistarter using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install indistarter

How To Uninstall indistarter on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove indistarter

indistarter Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/indigui
/usr/bin/indistarter
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c/aeb37571e6863bd6691d897f7c713d9d60d3c8
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb/c3a0e598be790e6354b449cc274b2eee0d9f9e
/usr/share/applications/indigui.desktop
/usr/share/applications/indistarter.desktop
/usr/share/doc/indistarter
/usr/share/doc/indistarter/changelog
/usr/share/doc/indistarter/copyright
/usr/share/doc/indistarter/indistarter.pdf
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/indigui.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/indistarter.png
/usr/share/licenses/indistarter
/usr/share/licenses/indistarter/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/indistarter/gpl-3.0.txt
/usr/share/metainfo/indistarter.appdata.xml
/usr/share/pixmaps/indigui.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/indistarter.png

References

Summary

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