How To Install sextractor on Fedora 36
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/).