How To Install starplot on Fedora 34

starplot is 3-dimensional perspective star map viewer

Introduction

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

What is starplot

StarPlot is a GTK+ based program, written in C++, which can be used interactively to view three-dimensional perspective charts of stars.

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

Install starplot 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 starplot using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install starplot

Install starplot 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 starplot using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install starplot

How To Uninstall starplot on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove starplot

starplot Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/starconvert
/usr/bin/starpkg
/usr/bin/starplot
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/60
/usr/lib/.build-id/60/31a61ef7dc2fe66618f98cd33fa73e5d781344
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/b7bac304866bfb95177814a186fa2174b8aacd
/usr/share/applications/starplot.desktop
/usr/share/doc/starplot
/usr/share/doc/starplot/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/starplot/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/starplot/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/starplot/NLS-TEAM
/usr/share/doc/starplot/README
/usr/share/doc/starplot/TODO
/usr/share/doc/starplot/examples
/usr/share/doc/starplot/examples/example.spec
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/ch0.html
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/ch1.html
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/ch2.html
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/ch3.html
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/ch4.html
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/ch5.html
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/bayerdes.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/button-brighter.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/button-ccw.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/button-cw.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/button-dimmer.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/button-down.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/button-earthview.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/button-open.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/button-up.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/button-zoomin.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/button-zoomout.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/coords.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/dialog-define-chart.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/dialog-file-open.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/dialog-search.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/filebar.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/gcoords.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/hrdiagram.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/legend.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/menu-chart.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/menu-file.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/star-parts.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/star-popup.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/starplot-png.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/status.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/tour-40ly-reddwarfs.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/tour-40ly.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/tour-arcturus.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/tour-first.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/tour-galplane.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/tour-hr-diagram.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/tour-hyades.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/tour-legend-sun.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/tour-scocen.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/tour-sunlike-info.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/tour-sunlike.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/images/ui-parts.png
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/index.html
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/parfiles
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/parfiles/galplane.par
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/parfiles/hyades.par
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/parfiles/scocen.par
/usr/share/doc/starplot/html/starplot.css
/usr/share/licenses/starplot
/usr/share/licenses/starplot/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/en@boldquot/LC_MESSAGES/starplot.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/starplot.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/starplot.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/starconvert.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/starpkg.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/starplot.1.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/starplot32x32.xpm
/usr/share/starplot
/usr/share/starplot/sample.stars
/usr/share/starplot/test.stars

References

Summary

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