How To Install kstars on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kstars on CentOS 7.
What is kstars
KStars is a Desktop Planetarium. It provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. The display includes up to 100 million stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects, all 8 planets, the Sun and Moon, and thousands of comets and asteroids.
We can use yum or dnf to install kstars on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kstars.
Install kstars on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install kstars using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install kstars
Install kstars on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install kstars using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install kstars
How To Uninstall kstars on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the kstars package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove kstars
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kstars on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
