--- title: Install Space Telescope on Red Hat Enterprise Linux using the Snap Store | Snapcraft description: Get the latest version of Space Telescope for on Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Explore the cosmos url: https://snapcraft.io/install/spacetelescope/rhel --- [Canonical Snapcraft](https://snapcraft.io/) # Install Space Telescope on **Red Hat Enterprise Linux** # Space Telescope (spacetelescope) [Glenn Linde (forthtemple)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/forthtemple "View all snaps from Glenn Linde (forthtemple)") * [Glenn Linde (forthtemple)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/forthtemple "View all snaps from Glenn Linde (forthtemple)") * [Science](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=science) [Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/spacetelescope/rhel#install) #### Explore the cosmos View the heavens at high and low magnification. Uses Unistra's API to obtain astronomical images at higher magnifications with a given right ascension and declination. For low magnification uses NASA starmap image of the night sky with constellations. Uses Caltech's astronomical lookup API to allow you to search for specific objects eg NGC 100. Source code is in flutter therefore will run on Windows, Linux, macos, IOS and Android ### Package name * spacetelescope --- ### License * unset --- ### Last updated * 14 March 2025 - latest/stable --- ### Websites * [github.com/forthtemple/spacetelescope/blob/main/README.md](https://github.com/forthtemple/spacetelescope/blob/main/README.md "https://github.com/forthtemple/spacetelescope/blob/main/README.md") --- ### Source code * [github.com/forthtemple/spacetelescope](https://github.com/forthtemple/spacetelescope "https://github.com/forthtemple/spacetelescope") --- ##### Report a Snap Store violation * [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/install/spacetelescope/rhel#report-snap-modal) --- ## Enable snaps on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and install Space Telescope Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully. Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions. ### Enable snapd Snap is available for [Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8](https://www.redhat.com/en/enterprise-linux-8) and RHEL 7, from the 7.6 release onward. The packages for RHEL 7, RHEL 8, and RHEL 9 are in each distribution’s respective [Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) (EPEL) repository. The instructions for adding this repository diverge slightly between RHEL 7, RHEL 8 and RHEL 9, which is why they’re listed separately below. The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 9** with the following command: ``` sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm sudo dnf upgrade ``` The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 8** with the following command: ``` sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm sudo dnf upgrade ``` The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 7** with the following command: ``` sudo rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm ``` Adding the *optional* and *extras* repositories is also recommended: ``` sudo subscription-manager repos --enable "rhel-*-optional-rpms" --enable "rhel-*-extras-rpms" sudo yum update ``` Snap can now be installed as follows: ``` sudo yum install snapd ``` Once installed, the *systemd* unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled: ``` sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket ``` To enable *classic* snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between `/var/lib/snapd/snap` and `/snap`: ``` sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap ``` Either log out and back in again or restart your system to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly. ### Install Space Telescope To install Space Telescope, simply use the following command: ``` sudo snap install spacetelescope ``` ### Other popular snaps… [See more...](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=featured) [See more in Featured](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=featured) ### More things to do… #### [Get the snap store](https://snapcraft.io/snap-store) Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap. #### [Learn more about snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs) Interested to find out more about snaps? 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