How To Install grads on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grads on CentOS 7.
What is grads
The Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) is an interactive desktop tool that is used for easy access, manipulation, and visualization of earth science data. The format of the data may be either binary, GRIB, NetCDF, or HDF-SDS (Scientific Data Sets). GrADS has been implemented worldwide on a variety of commonly used operating systems and is freely distributed over the Internet.
We can use yum or dnf to install grads on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install grads.
Install grads on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install grads using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install grads
Install grads on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install grads using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install grads
How To Uninstall grads on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the grads package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove grads
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grads on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.