How To Install ncview on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ncview on Fedora 34.
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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ncview.
Install ncview on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34
To uninstall only the ncview package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ncview
ncview Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/ncview
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8f
/usr/lib/.build-id/8f/21ebdf8a422dfe8a4b580833d49820d7e7d920
/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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.