How To Install nco on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nco on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is nco
nco is:
NCO is a suite of programs known as operators. The operators are stand-alone, command-line programs executable in a POSIX shell. Operators take one or more netCDF files as input, perform operations (e.g., averaging, hyperslabbing), and produce a netCDF output file. NCO was originally designed to manipulate and analyze climate data, though it works on any netCDF format datasets.
There are three methods to install nco 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 nco Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nco using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nco
Install nco Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nco using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nco
Install nco 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 nco using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nco
How To Uninstall nco on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the nco package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nco
Uninstall nco And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nco and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nco
Remove nco Configurations and Data
To remove nco configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nco
Remove nco configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nco configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nco
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nco package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
