How To Install planets on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install planets in Fedora 36. planets is A celestial simulator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install planets on Fedora 36.

What is `planets`

Planets is a simple interactive program for playing with simulations of planetary systems

We can use yum or dnf to install planets on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install planets.

Install planets on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install planets using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install planets

Install planets on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install planets using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install planets

How To Uninstall planets on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove planets

planets Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/planets
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c/67b2652b01abc5576033a16bf00ac7c41e6167
/usr/share/applications/planets.desktop
/usr/share/doc/planets
/usr/share/doc/planets/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/planets/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/planets/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/planets/KEYBINDINGS.txt
/usr/share/doc/planets/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/planets/README
/usr/share/doc/planets/TODO
/usr/share/doc/planets/VERSION
/usr/share/doc/planets/codeguide.txt
/usr/share/doc/planets/getting_started.html
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/planets.png
/usr/share/man/man1/planets.1.gz

References

planets website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install planets on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).