How To Install xrotor on Fedora 34

xrotor is Design and analysis tools for propellers and windmills

Introduction

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

What is xrotor

XROTOR is an interactive program for the design and analysis of propellers and windmills. It includes 1. Design of minimum induced loss rotor (propeller or windmill) 2. Prompted input of an arbitrary rotor geometry 3. Interactive modification of a rotor geometry and many others.

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

Install xrotor 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 xrotor using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xrotor

Install xrotor 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 xrotor using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xrotor

How To Uninstall xrotor on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove xrotor

xrotor Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/jplot
/usr/bin/jplote
/usr/bin/xrotor
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/4ea014c162ec561736582696839fa312c32461
/usr/lib/.build-id/6d
/usr/lib/.build-id/6d/aa6bc9ba38266866076b621cb7dc8b5da86db4
/usr/lib/.build-id/82
/usr/lib/.build-id/82/ae1823dd95494cf0fd84a1a9b2b0fe9fa457ef
/usr/share/doc/xrotor
/usr/share/doc/xrotor/version_notes.txt
/usr/share/doc/xrotor/xrotor_doc.txt
/usr/share/licenses/xrotor
/usr/share/licenses/xrotor/LICENSE.GPL
/usr/share/licenses/xrotor/LICENSE.LGPL

References

Summary

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