How To Install nightview on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install nightview on CentOS 7. nightview is A general astronomical software package to control of a CCD camera

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nightview on CentOS 7.

What is nightview

Nightview is a general astronomical software package to control of a CCD camera together with a telescope. It provides an intuitive graphical interface for getting of individual exposures and a telescope possitioning. An advanced command line interface is also offered to support of a scripting and a long time serie imaging. Nightview is designed as a fully network transparent providing maximum flexibility of its usage. Moreover, all components are prepared with possibility to be simply superseded by an user’s equivalent for support of individual improvements and possible requested extendings.

We can use yum or dnf to install nightview on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nightview.

Install nightview on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install nightview using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nightview

Install nightview 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 nightview using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nightview

How To Uninstall nightview on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove nightview

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nightview on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.