How To Install libpasastro on Fedora 34

libpasastro is Pascal interface for standard astronomy libraries Pascal interface for standard astronomy libraries

Introduction

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

What is `libpasastro`

Libpasastro provides shared libraries to interface Pascal program with standard astronomy libraries. libpasgetdss.so libpasplan404.so libpaswcs.so The library libpasspice.so is not distributed in the Fedora package due to unclear license. libpasastro 1.4.1 1.fc34 x86_64 299 k libpasastro-1.4.1-1.fc34.src.rpm fedora Pascal interface for standard astronomy libraries https GPLv2+ Libpasastro provides shared libraries to interface Pascal program with standard astronomy libraries. libpasgetdss.so libpasplan404.so libpaswcs.so The library libpasspice.so is not distributed in the Fedora package due to unclear license.

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

Install libpasastro 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 libpasastro using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libpasastro

Install libpasastro 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 libpasastro using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libpasastro

How To Uninstall libpasastro on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libpasastro

libpasastro Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/ea05b69d571833b4456dbd816424235423cf3e
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f/f7be4b72fb457d252647dedfaa68dc34983995
/usr/lib/.build-id/94
/usr/lib/.build-id/94/6c641aeac4b912fbf078cc65f2c7c94810c2d2
/usr/lib/libpasgetdss.so.1
/usr/lib/libpasgetdss.so.1.1
/usr/lib/libpasplan404.so.1
/usr/lib/libpasplan404.so.1.1
/usr/lib/libpaswcs.so.1
/usr/lib/libpaswcs.so.1.1
/usr/share/doc/libpasastro
/usr/share/doc/libpasastro/README.md
/usr/share/doc/libpasastro/changelog
/usr/share/doc/libpasastro/copyright
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a/393dad180325ed2cb6f7c05dd00666b3e3534e
/usr/lib/.build-id/99
/usr/lib/.build-id/99/426f66bc167a303cbdfae4118468e6732cc0fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0/dde7a65ef6c3544fa1701233129eec234862a5
/usr/lib64/libpasgetdss.so.1
/usr/lib64/libpasgetdss.so.1.1
/usr/lib64/libpasplan404.so.1
/usr/lib64/libpasplan404.so.1.1
/usr/lib64/libpaswcs.so.1
/usr/lib64/libpaswcs.so.1.1
/usr/share/doc/libpasastro
/usr/share/doc/libpasastro/README.md
/usr/share/doc/libpasastro/changelog
/usr/share/doc/libpasastro/copyright

References

[libpasastro website](https://github.com/pchev/libpasastro https://github.com/pchev/libpasastro)

Summary

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