How To Install nexcontrol on Fedora 34
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.
