How To Install sextractor on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sextractor on Fedora 34.
What is sextractor
SExtractor is a program that builds a catalogue of objects from an astronomical image. Although it is particularly oriented towards reduction of large scale galaxy-survey data, it performs rather well on moderately crowded star fields.
We can use yum or dnf to install sextractor on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sextractor.
Install sextractor 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 sextractor using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sextractor
Install sextractor 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 sextractor using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sextractor
How To Uninstall sextractor on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the sextractor package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sextractor
sextractor Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/ldactoasc
/usr/bin/sex
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f/5a390ab74b7f800785963d930683478c597d41
/usr/lib/.build-id/83
/usr/lib/.build-id/83/863a33354df3a8cf7d1b4ab69ca970d59e5365
/usr/share/doc/sextractor
/usr/share/doc/sextractor/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/sextractor/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/sextractor/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/sextractor/HISTORY
/usr/share/doc/sextractor/README
/usr/share/doc/sextractor/README.md
/usr/share/doc/sextractor/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/sextractor/default.param
/usr/share/doc/sextractor/default.sex
/usr/share/licenses/sextractor
/usr/share/licenses/sextractor/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/sex.1.gz
/usr/share/man/manx/sex.x.gz
/usr/share/sextractor
/usr/share/sextractor/README
/usr/share/sextractor/block_3x3.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/default.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/default.nnw
/usr/share/sextractor/default.param
/usr/share/sextractor/default.sex
/usr/share/sextractor/gauss_1.5_3x3.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/gauss_2.0_3x3.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/gauss_2.0_5x5.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/gauss_2.5_5x5.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/gauss_3.0_5x5.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/gauss_3.0_7x7.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/gauss_4.0_7x7.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/gauss_5.0_9x9.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/mexhat_1.5_5x5.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/mexhat_2.0_7x7.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/mexhat_2.5_7x7.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/mexhat_3.0_9x9.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/mexhat_4.0_9x9.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/mexhat_5.0_11x11.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/sextractor.xsl
/usr/share/sextractor/tophat_1.5_3x3.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/tophat_2.0_3x3.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/tophat_2.5_3x3.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/tophat_3.0_3x3.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/tophat_4.0_5x5.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/tophat_5.0_5x5.conv
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sextractor on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.