How To Install ncview on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ncview on CentOS 8.
What is ncview
Ncview is a visual browser for netCDF format files. Typically you would use ncview to get a quick and easy, push-button look at your netCDF files. You can view simple movies of the data, view along various dimensions, take a look at the actual data values, change color maps, invert the data, etc.
We can use yum or dnf to install ncview on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ncview.
Install ncview on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install ncview using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ncview
Install ncview on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install ncview using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ncview
How To Uninstall ncview on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the ncview package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ncview
ncview Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/ncview
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7/1b720d5a550aa2205b4628595dc2ea4a1bf0c8
/usr/share/X11/app-defaults/Ncview
/usr/share/doc/ncview
/usr/share/doc/ncview/README
/usr/share/licenses/ncview
/usr/share/licenses/ncview/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/ncview.1.gz
/usr/share/ncview
/usr/share/ncview/3gauss.ncmap
/usr/share/ncview/3saw.ncmap
/usr/share/ncview/bw.ncmap
/usr/share/ncview/default.ncmap
/usr/share/ncview/detail.ncmap
/usr/share/ncview/hotres.ncmap
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ncview on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
