How To Install skyviewer on Fedora 36

Introduction

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

What is skyviewer

SkyViewer is an OpenGL based program to display HEALPix-based skymaps, saved in FITS format files. The loaded skymaps can be viewed either on a 3D sphere or as a Mollweide projection. In either case, realtime panning and zooming are supported, along with rotations for the 3D sphere view, assuming you have a strong enough graphics card.

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

Install skyviewer 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 skyviewer using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install skyviewer

Install skyviewer 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 skyviewer using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install skyviewer

How To Uninstall skyviewer on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove skyviewer

skyviewer Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/skyviewer
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb/7dca5914fc458214d28b1971f6e6849471f384
/usr/share/applications/skyviewer.desktop
/usr/share/doc/skyviewer
/usr/share/doc/skyviewer/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/skyviewer/general.txt
/usr/share/doc/skyviewer/notes-ngp.txt
/usr/share/doc/skyviewer/test_iqu.fits
/usr/share/licenses/skyviewer
/usr/share/licenses/skyviewer/License.txt
/usr/share/pixmaps/skyviewer.png

References

• skyviewer website

Summary

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