How To Install sextractor on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install sextractor in Fedora 36. sextractor is Extract catalogs of sources from astronomical images

Introduction

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

What is sextractor

SExtractor is a program that builds a catalogue of objects from an astronomical image. Although it is particularly oriented towards reduction of large scale galaxy-survey data, it performs rather well on moderately crowded star fields.

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

Install sextractor 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 sextractor using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sextractor

Install sextractor 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 sextractor using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sextractor

How To Uninstall sextractor on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove sextractor

sextractor Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/ldactoasc
/usr/bin/sex
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf/590fef2ccf1fd0016848e6ffa4b9eba4b9a867
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4/a9f132728bf64b144b173c6478374d9eda0510
/usr/share/doc/sextractor
/usr/share/doc/sextractor/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/sextractor/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/sextractor/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/sextractor/HISTORY
/usr/share/doc/sextractor/README
/usr/share/doc/sextractor/README.md
/usr/share/doc/sextractor/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/sextractor/default.param
/usr/share/doc/sextractor/default.sex
/usr/share/licenses/sextractor
/usr/share/licenses/sextractor/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/sex.1.gz
/usr/share/man/manx/sex.x.gz
/usr/share/sextractor
/usr/share/sextractor/README
/usr/share/sextractor/block_3x3.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/default.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/default.nnw
/usr/share/sextractor/default.param
/usr/share/sextractor/default.sex
/usr/share/sextractor/gauss_1.5_3x3.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/gauss_2.0_3x3.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/gauss_2.0_5x5.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/gauss_2.5_5x5.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/gauss_3.0_5x5.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/gauss_3.0_7x7.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/gauss_4.0_7x7.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/gauss_5.0_9x9.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/mexhat_1.5_5x5.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/mexhat_2.0_7x7.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/mexhat_2.5_7x7.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/mexhat_3.0_9x9.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/mexhat_4.0_9x9.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/mexhat_5.0_11x11.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/sextractor.xsl
/usr/share/sextractor/tophat_1.5_3x3.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/tophat_2.0_3x3.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/tophat_2.5_3x3.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/tophat_3.0_3x3.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/tophat_4.0_5x5.conv
/usr/share/sextractor/tophat_5.0_5x5.conv

References

Summary

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