Information about the package, wcstools, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The wcstools package is designed for, Software utilities to display and manipulate the WCS of a FITS.
Package Name:
wcstools
Summary:
Software utilities to display and manipulate the WCS of a FITS
Description:
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.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.9.5
Release:
1.el6
Size:
310 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the wcstools package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install wcstools
This command will install wcstools on the server.
yum remove wcstools
This command will un-install wcstools on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove wcstools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove wcstools
This command will un-install wcstools 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 wcstools when using the -y flag.
yum update wcstools
This command will update wcstools to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove wcstools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update wcstools
This command will update wcstools 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 wcstools when using the -y flag.
yum info wcstools
This command will show you core information about the wcstools package.
yum deplist wcstools
This command will show you the dependencies for wcstools. 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 wcstools
This command will check if there is an update waiting on wcstools. 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.