How To Install wgrib on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wgrib on CentOS 8.
What is wgrib
WGRIB is a program to manipulate, inventory and decode GRIB files.
We can use yum or dnf to install wgrib on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wgrib.
Install wgrib 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 wgrib using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install wgrib
Install wgrib 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 wgrib using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install wgrib
How To Uninstall wgrib on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the wgrib package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove wgrib
wgrib Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/wgrib
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1/731b202feef5b67ba612b68005b0c912bf07af
/usr/share/doc/wgrib
/usr/share/doc/wgrib/Changes
/usr/share/doc/wgrib/double_prec.txt
/usr/share/doc/wgrib/formats.txt
/usr/share/doc/wgrib/formats_update.txt
/usr/share/doc/wgrib/grib2ieee.txt
/usr/share/doc/wgrib/land.grb
/usr/share/doc/wgrib/misc.txt
/usr/share/doc/wgrib/porting.txt
/usr/share/doc/wgrib/testbin.c
/usr/share/doc/wgrib/testbin.f
/usr/share/doc/wgrib/tricks.wgrib
/usr/share/doc/wgrib/usertables.txt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wgrib on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.