How To Install wgrib2 on Fedora 34

wgrib2 is Manipulate, inventory and decode GRIB2 files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wgrib2 on Fedora 34.

What is wgrib2

Wgrib2 is a swiss army knife for grib2 files. You can use it inventory or extract data. You can do basic database operations and other nifty things.

We can use yum or dnf to install wgrib2 on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wgrib2.

Install wgrib2 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 wgrib2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wgrib2

Install wgrib2 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 wgrib2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wgrib2

How To Uninstall wgrib2 on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the wgrib2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove wgrib2

wgrib2 Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/wgrib2
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5/46cd1ed93fa7919ee763675eb2a030ff31c8d1
/usr/share/doc/wgrib2
/usr/share/doc/wgrib2/LICENSE-wgrib2
/usr/share/doc/wgrib2/README

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wgrib2 on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.