Information about the package, saoimage, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The saoimage package is designed for, Utility for displaying astronomical images.
Package Name:
saoimage
Summary:
Utility for displaying astronomical images
Description:
SAOimage (pronounced S-A-0-image) is a utility for displaying astronomical images in the X11 window environment. It was written at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory by Mike Van Hilst in 1990 and is now maintained by Doug Mink. Image files can be read directly, or image data may be passed through a named pipe (Unix) or a mailbox (VMS) from IRAF display tasks. SAOimage provides a large selection of options for zooming, panning, scaling, coloring, pixel readback, display blinking, and region specification. User interactions are generally performed with the mouse. Mouse tracking in an image's world coordinate system, usually sky coordinates, was added in 1994. You can also plot catalogs over images with WCS information in their headers. The SAOimage desktop includes, a main image display window, a button menu panel, a display magnifier, a pan and zoom reference image, and a color bar. A color table graph window can be brought up by clicking on the color bar.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.35.1
Release:
7.el6
Size:
535 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2+
Control the saoimage package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install saoimage
This command will install saoimage on the server.
yum remove saoimage
This command will un-install saoimage on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove saoimage, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove saoimage
This command will un-install saoimage 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 saoimage when using the -y flag.
yum update saoimage
This command will update saoimage to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove saoimage, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update saoimage
This command will update saoimage 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 saoimage when using the -y flag.
yum info saoimage
This command will show you core information about the saoimage package.
yum deplist saoimage
This command will show you the dependencies for saoimage. 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 saoimage
This command will check if there is an update waiting on saoimage. 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.