How To Install xplanet on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xplanet
on Fedora 34.
What is xplanet
Xplanet is similar to Xearth, where an image of the earth is rendered into an X window. Azimuthal, Mercator, Mollweide, orthographic, or rectangular projections can be displayed as well as a window with a globe the user can rotate interactively. The other terrestrial planets may also be displayed. The Xplanet home page has links to locations with map files.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install xplanet
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xplanet.
Install xplanet 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 xplanet
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xplanet
Install xplanet 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 xplanet
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xplanet
How To Uninstall xplanet on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the xplanet
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xplanet
xplanet Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/xplanet
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2
/usr/lib/.build-id/b2/144fe5906bab6896fb5623d08d1bc4339348dd
/usr/share/doc/xplanet
/usr/share/doc/xplanet/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/xplanet/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/xplanet/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/xplanet/README
/usr/share/doc/xplanet/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/xplanet
/usr/share/licenses/xplanet/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/xplanet.1.gz
/usr/share/xplanet
/usr/share/xplanet/FreeMonoBold.ttf
/usr/share/xplanet/arcs
/usr/share/xplanet/arcs/README
/usr/share/xplanet/arcs/constellations
/usr/share/xplanet/config
/usr/share/xplanet/config/README
/usr/share/xplanet/config/default
/usr/share/xplanet/config/earth_markers
/usr/share/xplanet/config/moon_orbit
/usr/share/xplanet/config/overlay_clouds
/usr/share/xplanet/ephemeris
/usr/share/xplanet/ephemeris/README
/usr/share/xplanet/fonts
/usr/share/xplanet/fonts/FreeMonoBold.ttf
/usr/share/xplanet/fonts/README
/usr/share/xplanet/images
/usr/share/xplanet/images/README
/usr/share/xplanet/images/earth.jpg
/usr/share/xplanet/images/hubble.png
/usr/share/xplanet/images/iss.png
/usr/share/xplanet/images/mgs.png
/usr/share/xplanet/images/night.jpg
/usr/share/xplanet/images/odyssey.png
/usr/share/xplanet/images/shuttle.png
/usr/share/xplanet/images/smile.png
/usr/share/xplanet/images/sublunar.png
/usr/share/xplanet/images/subsolar.png
/usr/share/xplanet/images/sun.jpg
/usr/share/xplanet/markers
/usr/share/xplanet/markers/README
/usr/share/xplanet/markers/brightStars
/usr/share/xplanet/markers/earth
/usr/share/xplanet/markers/mars
/usr/share/xplanet/markers/moon
/usr/share/xplanet/origin
/usr/share/xplanet/origin/README
/usr/share/xplanet/origin/cassini
/usr/share/xplanet/origin/galileo
/usr/share/xplanet/rgb.txt
/usr/share/xplanet/satellites
/usr/share/xplanet/satellites/README
/usr/share/xplanet/satellites/iss
/usr/share/xplanet/satellites/iss.tle
/usr/share/xplanet/scattering
/usr/share/xplanet/scattering/README
/usr/share/xplanet/scattering/earthRayleigh
/usr/share/xplanet/spice
/usr/share/xplanet/spice/README
/usr/share/xplanet/spice/asteroids
/usr/share/xplanet/spice/asteroids.krn
/usr/share/xplanet/spice/cassini
/usr/share/xplanet/spice/cassini.krn
/usr/share/xplanet/spice/mgs
/usr/share/xplanet/spice/mgs.krn
/usr/share/xplanet/spice/voyager
/usr/share/xplanet/spice/voyager.krn
/usr/share/xplanet/stars
/usr/share/xplanet/stars/BSC
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xplanet
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.