Information about the package, healpix, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The healpix package is designed for, Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization of a sphere.
Package Name:
healpix
Summary:
Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization of a sphere
Description:
HEALPix is an acronym for Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization of a sphere. As suggested in the name, this pixelization produces a subdivision of a spherical surface in which each pixel covers the same surface area as every other pixel. This package contains Fortran binaries and libraries. NB. Due to some generic names, the binaries have been renamed to start with hp_, e.g. anafast is now hp_anafast.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.13a
Release:
2.el6
Size:
8.6 M
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the healpix package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install healpix
This command will install healpix on the server.
yum remove healpix
This command will un-install healpix on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove healpix, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove healpix
This command will un-install healpix on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove healpix when using the -y flag.
yum update healpix
This command will update healpix to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove healpix, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update healpix
This command will update healpix to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove healpix when using the -y flag.
yum info healpix
This command will show you core information about the healpix package.
yum deplist healpix
This command will show you the dependencies for healpix. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update healpix
This command will check if there is an update waiting on healpix. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.