Information about the package, nightfall, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The nightfall package is designed for, Nightfall is an astronomy application for emulation of eclipsing.
Package Name:
nightfall
Summary:
Nightfall is an astronomy application for emulation of eclipsing
Description:
Nightfall is an astronomy application for fun, education, and science. It can produce animated views of eclipsing binary stars, calculate synthetic lightcurves and radial velocity curves, and eventually determine the best-fit model for a given set of observational data of an eclipsing binary star system. It is, however, not able to fry your breakfast egg on your harddisk.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.62
Release:
8.el6
Size:
726 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the nightfall package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install nightfall
This command will install nightfall on the server.
yum remove nightfall
This command will un-install nightfall on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove nightfall, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove nightfall
This command will un-install nightfall 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 nightfall when using the -y flag.
yum update nightfall
This command will update nightfall to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove nightfall, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update nightfall
This command will update nightfall 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 nightfall when using the -y flag.
yum info nightfall
This command will show you core information about the nightfall package.
yum deplist nightfall
This command will show you the dependencies for nightfall. 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 nightfall
This command will check if there is an update waiting on nightfall. 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.