How To Install wcstools on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wcstools
on CentOS 7.
What is wcstools
Wcstools is a set of software utilities, written in C, which create, display and manipulate the world coordinate system of a FITS or IRAF image, using specific keywords in the image header which relate pixel position within the image to position on the sky. Auxiliary programs search star catalogs and manipulate images.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install wcstools
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wcstools.
Install wcstools on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install wcstools
using yum
by running the following command:
Install wcstools 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 wcstools
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall wcstools on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the wcstools
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wcstools
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.