Have been looking for a program to decode GRIB weather files under linux. Have looked at Viperfish and Grads but their user interfaces are crap. Really like uGrib, but it doesn't work under Wine. So I'm trying zyGrib on my EeePC.
It's a bit of a PITA really - but eems to work well once installed
The install php script didn't work so task one was to get the 2 .tgz files.
wget http://zygrib.free.fr/getfile.php?file=zyGrib-1.4.tgz wget http://zygrib.free.fr/getfile.php?file=gshhs_high_resolution.tgz
Next I had to Unzip the files in the correct locations
tar xzvf zyGrib-1.4.tgz mv gshhs_high_resolution.tgz zyGrib/ cd zyGrib/ tar xzvf gshhs_high_resolution.tgz
Next I should have just run make, but that didn't work so I needed to install some packages and change the makefile.
su - root
apt-get install qt4-dev-tools libqt4-dev
cd ~user/binaries/zyGrib *
* change according to your setup the Makefile needed to be changed to look like:
QTBIN=/usr/bin all: cd src; $(QTBIN)/qmake-qt4; make mv -f src/zyGrib . clean: cd src; $(QTBIN)/qmake-qt4; make clean
Then, this could be run:
make
exit
To run the program, run
cd ~/binaries/zyGrib
./zyGrib
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