How To Install siril on Fedora 34

siril is Astronomical image processing software

Introduction

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

What is siril

Siril is an image processing tool specially tailored for noise reduction and improving the signal/noise ratio of an image from multiple captures, as required in astronomy. Siril can align automatically or manually, stack and enhance pictures from various file formats, even images sequences (movies and SER files) Note guidelines.

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

Install siril 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 siril using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install siril

Install siril 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 siril using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install siril

How To Uninstall siril on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove siril

siril Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/siril
/usr/bin/siril-cli
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/03
/usr/lib/.build-id/03/4368cbf911cef322c1a38f63a99b53955a2db4
/usr/lib/.build-id/67
/usr/lib/.build-id/67/c88fcc6fb3691e28260aac157f83d59590d7ba
/usr/share/applications/org.free_astro.siril.desktop
/usr/share/doc/siril
/usr/share/doc/siril/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/siril/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/siril/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/siril/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/org.free_astro.siril.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/mimetypes/text-x-seq.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/org.free_astro.siril-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/licenses/siril
/usr/share/licenses/siril/LICENSE.md
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/siril.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/siril.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/siril.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/siril.mo
/usr/share/locale/it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/siril.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja_JP/LC_MESSAGES/siril.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl_BE/LC_MESSAGES/siril.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl_PL/LC_MESSAGES/siril.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/siril.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/siril.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/siril.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/siril.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/org.free_astro.siril.appdata.xml
/usr/share/mime/packages/siril.xml
/usr/share/siril
/usr/share/siril/catalogue
/usr/share/siril/catalogue/ic.txt
/usr/share/siril/catalogue/ldn.txt
/usr/share/siril/catalogue/messier.txt
/usr/share/siril/catalogue/ngc.txt
/usr/share/siril/catalogue/sh2.txt
/usr/share/siril/catalogue/stars.txt
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/astrometry.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/astrometry_dark.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/b.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/chain.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/cm.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/curve.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/export.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/export_dark.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/g.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/grid.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/histo.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/list.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/mirrorx.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/mirrorx_dark.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/mirrory.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/mirrory_dark.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/monochrome.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/monochrome_dark.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/mtf.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/mtf_dark.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/neg.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/r.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/rotate-acw.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/rotate-acw_dark.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/rotate-cw.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/rotate-cw_dark.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/siril.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/starfinder.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/starfinder_dark.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/sum.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/sum_dark.svg
/usr/share/siril/scripts
/usr/share/siril/scripts/Mono_Preprocessing.ssf
/usr/share/siril/scripts/OSC_Extract_Ha.ssf
/usr/share/siril/scripts/OSC_Extract_HaOIII.ssf
/usr/share/siril/scripts/OSC_Preprocessing.ssf
/usr/share/siril/scripts/OSC_Preprocessing_WithDrizzle.ssf
/usr/share/siril/siril-shortcuts.ui
/usr/share/siril/siril.css
/usr/share/siril/siril3.glade
/usr/bin/siril
/usr/bin/siril-cli
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e/a92394ce87f65c48083445e32122cd69298410
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8/0341951a3a9d31c5912bdcc17b41971e00c779
/usr/share/applications/org.free_astro.siril.desktop
/usr/share/doc/siril
/usr/share/doc/siril/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/siril/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/siril/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/siril/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/org.free_astro.siril.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/mimetypes/text-x-seq.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/org.free_astro.siril-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/licenses/siril
/usr/share/licenses/siril/LICENSE.md
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/siril.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/siril.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/siril.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/siril.mo
/usr/share/locale/it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/siril.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja_JP/LC_MESSAGES/siril.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl_BE/LC_MESSAGES/siril.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl_PL/LC_MESSAGES/siril.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/siril.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/siril.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/siril.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/siril-cli.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/siril.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/org.free_astro.siril.appdata.xml
/usr/share/mime/packages/siril.xml
/usr/share/siril
/usr/share/siril/catalogue
/usr/share/siril/catalogue/ic.txt
/usr/share/siril/catalogue/ldn.txt
/usr/share/siril/catalogue/messier.txt
/usr/share/siril/catalogue/ngc.txt
/usr/share/siril/catalogue/sh2.txt
/usr/share/siril/catalogue/stars.txt
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/astrometry.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/astrometry_dark.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/b.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/chain.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/cm.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/curve.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/export.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/export_dark.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/g.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/grid.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/histo.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/list.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/mirrorx.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/mirrorx_dark.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/mirrory.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/mirrory_dark.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/monochrome.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/monochrome_dark.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/mtf.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/mtf_dark.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/neg.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/r.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/rotate-acw.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/rotate-acw_dark.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/rotate-cw.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/rotate-cw_dark.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/siril.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/starfinder.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/starfinder_dark.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/sum.svg
/usr/share/siril/pixmaps/sum_dark.svg
/usr/share/siril/scripts
/usr/share/siril/scripts/Mono_Preprocessing.ssf
/usr/share/siril/scripts/OSC_Extract_Ha.ssf
/usr/share/siril/scripts/OSC_Extract_HaOIII.ssf
/usr/share/siril/scripts/OSC_Preprocessing.ssf
/usr/share/siril/scripts/OSC_Preprocessing_WithDrizzle.ssf
/usr/share/siril/siril-shortcuts.ui
/usr/share/siril/siril.css
/usr/share/siril/siril3.glade

References

Summary

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