How To Install SolarModel on Fedora 34

SolarModel is Real-time 3D Solar System simulation

Introduction

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

What is SolarModel

Solar Model provides realtime modeling of the solar system. It allows the user to navigate in space, to control time counting (speed-up time flow) and estimate real movement of space bodies like planets, dwarf planets and moons; estimate its nowadays positions in space. You may select two possible views Solar System view or Milky Way galaxy view. It also allows the user to bind the camera to space objects (for example, you can look from the Moon onto Earth in real-time flow).

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

Install SolarModel 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 SolarModel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install SolarModel

Install SolarModel 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 SolarModel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install SolarModel

How To Uninstall SolarModel on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove SolarModel

SolarModel Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/SolarModel
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e/ada6e02a53ce3143c07ad9668d1f29d37a5ca5
/usr/share/SolarModel
/usr/share/SolarModel/config.dat
/usr/share/SolarModel/data.dat
/usr/share/applications/SolarModel.desktop
/usr/share/doc/SolarModel
/usr/share/doc/SolarModel/Changelog.txt
/usr/share/doc/SolarModel/License.txt
/usr/share/doc/SolarModel/Map format v1.0+.txt
/usr/share/doc/SolarModel/Map format v2.0+.txt
/usr/share/doc/SolarModel/Map positions.gif
/usr/share/doc/SolarModel/Readme.txt
/usr/share/doc/SolarModel/Space distances and scales.xls
/usr/share/pixmaps/SolarModel.png

References

Summary

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