How To Install ecbuild on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ecbuild
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is ecbuild
ecbuild is:
This is a toolkit from ECMWF extend CMAKE with macros used at ECMWF.
ECMWF is the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.
There are three methods to install ecbuild
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ecbuild Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ecbuild
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ecbuild
Install ecbuild Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ecbuild
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ecbuild
Install ecbuild 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install ecbuild
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ecbuild
How To Uninstall ecbuild on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the ecbuild
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ecbuild
Uninstall ecbuild And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ecbuild
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ecbuild
Remove ecbuild Configurations and Data
To remove ecbuild
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ecbuild
Remove ecbuild configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ecbuild
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ecbuild
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ecbuild
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.