Information about the package, sextractor, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The sextractor package is designed for, Extract catalogs of sources from astronomical images.
Package Name:
sextractor
Summary:
Extract catalogs of sources from astronomical images
Description:
SExtractor is a program that builds a catalogue of objects from an astronomical image. Although it is particularly oriented towards reduction of large scale galaxy-survey data, it performs rather well on moderately crowded star fields.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.8.6
Release:
1.el6
Size:
655 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
CeCILL
Control the sextractor package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install sextractor
This command will install sextractor on the server.
yum remove sextractor
This command will un-install sextractor on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove sextractor, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove sextractor
This command will un-install sextractor 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 sextractor when using the -y flag.
yum update sextractor
This command will update sextractor to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove sextractor, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update sextractor
This command will update sextractor 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 sextractor when using the -y flag.
yum info sextractor
This command will show you core information about the sextractor package.
yum deplist sextractor
This command will show you the dependencies for sextractor. 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 sextractor
This command will check if there is an update waiting on sextractor. 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.