How To Install pyfits on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pyfits
on CentOS 7.
What is pyfits
PyFITS provides an interface to FITS formatted files under the Python scripting language. It is useful both for interactive data analysis and for writing analysis scripts in Python using FITS files as either input or output.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install pyfits
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pyfits.
Install pyfits on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install pyfits
using yum
by running the following command:
Install pyfits 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.
After updating yum database, We can install pyfits
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall pyfits on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the pyfits
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pyfits
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.