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nexcontrol


Information about the package, nexcontrol, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The nexcontrol package is designed for, Software to control your Celestron NexStar Telescope.


Package Name:

nexcontrol

Summary:

Software to control your Celestron NexStar Telescope

Description:

NexControl is a perl code to interface with the NexStar series of scopes from Celestron.

Architecture:

noarch

Version:

0.2

Release:

3.el6

Size:

12 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for nexcontrol


Control the nexcontrol package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install nexcontrol

This command will install nexcontrol on the server.

yum remove nexcontrol

This command will un-install nexcontrol on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove nexcontrol, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove nexcontrol

This command will un-install nexcontrol 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 nexcontrol when using the -y flag.

yum update nexcontrol

This command will update nexcontrol to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove nexcontrol, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update nexcontrol

This command will update nexcontrol 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 nexcontrol when using the -y flag.

yum info nexcontrol

This command will show you core information about the nexcontrol package.

yum deplist nexcontrol

This command will show you the dependencies for nexcontrol. 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 nexcontrol

This command will check if there is an update waiting on nexcontrol. 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.