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nightview


Information about the package, nightview, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The nightview package is designed for, A general astronomical software package to control of a CCD camera.


Package Name:

nightview

Summary:

A general astronomical software package to control of a CCD camera

Description:

Nightview is a general astronomical software package to control of a CCD camera together with a telescope. It provides an intuitive graphical interface for getting of individual exposures and a telescope possitioning. An advanced command line interface is also offered to support of a scripting and a long time serie imaging. Nightview is designed as a fully network transparent providing maximum flexibility of its usage. Moreover, all components are prepared with possibility to be simply superseded by an user's equivalent for support of individual improvements and possible requested extendings.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

0.3.3

Release:

1.el6

Size:

17 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2



Handy Yum Commands for nightview


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


Command

Description of Command

yum install nightview

This command will install nightview on the server.

yum remove nightview

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

yum -y remove nightview

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

yum update nightview

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

yum -y update nightview

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

yum info nightview

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

yum deplist nightview

This command will show you the dependencies for nightview. 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 nightview

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