How To Install fips on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fips on Rocky Linux 8.
What is fips
FIPS is a cross-platform FITS viewer with responsive user interface. Unlike other FITS viewers FIPS uses GPU hardware via OpenGL to provide usual functionality such as zooming, panning and level adjustments. OpenGL 2.1 and later is supported. FIPS supports all 2D image formats (except for floating point formats on OpenGL 2.1). FITS image extension has basic limited support. FITS image extension has basic limited support.
We can use yum or dnf to install fips on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fips.
Install fips on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install fips using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fips
Install fips on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install fips using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fips
How To Uninstall fips on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the fips package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fips
fips Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/fips
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef/afce1a69ab431d925ce98c4e110b560df2556f
/usr/share/applications/space.fips.Fips.desktop
/usr/share/doc/fips
/usr/share/doc/fips/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/space.fips.Fips.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/space.fips.Fips.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/space.fips.Fips.svg
/usr/share/licenses/fips
/usr/share/licenses/fips/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/metainfo/space.fips.Fips.metainfo.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fips on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.