How To Install planets on Fedora 34

planets is A celestial simulator

Introduction

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

What is planets

Planets is a simple interactive program for playing with simulations of planetary systems

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

Install planets 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 planets using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install planets

Install planets 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 planets using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install planets

How To Uninstall planets on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove planets

planets Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/planets
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6d
/usr/lib/.build-id/6d/1c53910cae4358e5158821c65f8358b9078d2d
/usr/share/applications/planets.desktop
/usr/share/doc/planets
/usr/share/doc/planets/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/planets/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/planets/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/planets/KEYBINDINGS.txt
/usr/share/doc/planets/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/planets/README
/usr/share/doc/planets/TODO
/usr/share/doc/planets/VERSION
/usr/share/doc/planets/codeguide.txt
/usr/share/doc/planets/getting_started.html
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/planets.png
/usr/share/man/man1/planets.1.gz

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Summary

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