How To Install nexcontrol on Fedora 34

nexcontrol is Software to control your Celestron NexStar Telescope

Introduction

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

What is nexcontrol

NexControl is a perl code to interface with the NexStar series of scopes from Celestron.

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

Install nexcontrol 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 nexcontrol using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nexcontrol

Install nexcontrol 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 nexcontrol using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nexcontrol

How To Uninstall nexcontrol on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove nexcontrol

nexcontrol Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/nexcontrol
/usr/share/doc/nexcontrol
/usr/share/doc/nexcontrol/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/nexcontrol/README

References

Summary

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