How To Install ncview on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ncview on Rocky Linux 8.
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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ncview.
Install ncview on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install ncview using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ncview
Install ncview on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
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 Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the ncview package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ncview
ncview Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/ncview
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7/1b720d5a550aa2205b4628595dc2ea4a1bf0c8
/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 Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.