How To Install grads on Debian 10

Learn how to install grads on Debian 10 with this tutorial. grads is Grid Analysis and Display System for earth science data

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install grads on Debian 10.

What is grads

grads is:

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.

GrADS uses a 4-Dimensional data environment: longitude, latitude, vertical level, and time. Data sets are placed within the 4-D space by use of a data descriptor file. GrADS interprets station data as well as gridded data, and the grids may be regular, non-linearly spaced, gaussian, or of variable resolution. Data from different data sets may be graphically overlaid, with correct spatial and time registration. Operations are executed interactively by entering FORTRAN-like expressions at the command line. A rich set of built-in functions are provided, but users may also add their own functions as external routines written in any programming language.

Data may be displayed using a variety of graphical techniques: line and bar graphs, scatter plots, smoothed contours, shaded contours, streamlines, wind vectors, grid boxes, shaded grid boxes, and station model plots. Graphics may be output in PostScript or image formats. GrADS provides geophysically intuitive defaults, but the user has the option to control all aspects of graphics output.

GrADS has a programmable interface (scripting language) that allows for sophisticated analysis and display applications. Use scripts to display buttons and dropmenus as well as graphics, and then take action based on user point-and-clicks. GrADS can be run in batch mode, and the scripting language facilitates using GrADS to do long overnight batch jobs.

There are three methods to install grads on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install grads Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install grads using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install grads

Install grads Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install grads using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install grads

Install grads Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install grads using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install grads

How To Uninstall grads on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove grads

Uninstall grads And Its Dependencies

To uninstall grads and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove grads

Remove grads Configurations and Data

To remove grads configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge grads

Remove grads configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove grads configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge grads

Dependencies

grads have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install grads package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.