# Install metview with Homebrew, apt, MacPorts Meteorological workstation software. Version 5.26.2 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-25. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:metview ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install metview ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install metview ``` Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: science/metview/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - Debian apt (92%): ```sh sudo apt install libmetview-dev ``` Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: libmetview-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:metview - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 5.26.2 - **Source summary:** Meteorological workstation software - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** Apache-2.0 - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-06-25T13:37:54+02:00 - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - metview (cli) - metview (alias) ## Dependencies - cairo - eccodes - eigen - fftw - gcc - gdbm - gettext - glib - harfbuzz - libaec - lz4 - magics - netcdf - netcdf-cxx - pango - qt5compat - qtbase - qtsvg - snappy ## Build dependencies - cmake - pkgconf ## Uses from macOS - bzip2 - curl ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 5.26.2 - Package-manager updated: 2026-06-25 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://metview.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ - info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories. ## Project history and usage Metview is ECMWF's meteorological workstation and batch system. The Metview documentation describes it as a complete working environment for operational and research meteorologists, with data access, processing, visualization, an icon-based graphical interface, and a Python interface for batch processing. The same documentation says it was developed through cooperation between ECMWF and INPE, Brazil's National Institute for Space Research. ### Project history ECMWF presentation material gives the older timeline: Metview was announced at the first EGOWS meeting in Oslo in June 1990, and the first operational 1.0 version arrived in December 1993. By the Metview 4 era it was described as open source under Apache License 2.0, built on ECMWF technologies such as MARS, GRIB_API, Magics, ODB, and Emoslib, and used for retrieving, manipulating, visualizing, and examining meteorological data. The project later added a Python-facing workflow through the metview-python bindings for accessing, examining, manipulating, and visualizing meteorological data. ### How it is used Its package-manager niche is a specialist scientific workstation rather than a small utility. Users work with GRIB, BUFR, NetCDF, ODB, geopoints, CSV, and ASCII meteorological data, either interactively through icons and plots or in automated scripts. It sits in the ECMWF ecosystem with ecCodes, Magics, and MARS, and it appears in Homebrew, Debian/Ubuntu, and MacPorts for meteorology and earth-science users who need local processing and visualization tools. ### Sources - - - - - - ## Security Notes narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger risk:** green / low - narrow executable package without higher-risk signals ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** metview - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Debian apt - libmetview-dev - 5.23.1-1+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libmetview-dev from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Development files for MetView | https://confluence.ecmwf.int/display/METV/Metview - Debian apt - libmetview0d - 5.23.1-1+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: libmetview0d from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Shared libraries for MetView | https://confluence.ecmwf.int/display/METV/Metview - Debian apt - metview - 5.23.1-1+b1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: metview from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Interactive data visualization and analysis environment, | https://confluence.ecmwf.int/display/METV/Metview - Debian apt - metview-data - 5.23.1-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: metview-data from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Data needed for the Metview data analysis environment | https://confluence.ecmwf.int/display/METV/Metview - Ubuntu apt - libmetview-dev - 5.21.2-1build3: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libmetview-dev from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Development files for MetView | https://confluence.ecmwf.int/display/METV/Metview - Ubuntu apt - libmetview0d - 5.21.2-1build3: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: libmetview0d from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Shared libraries for MetView | https://confluence.ecmwf.int/display/METV/Metview - Ubuntu apt - metview - 5.21.2-1build3: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: metview from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Interactive data visualization and analysis environment, | https://confluence.ecmwf.int/display/METV/Metview - Ubuntu apt - metview-data - 5.21.2-1build3: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: metview-data from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Data needed for the Metview data analysis environment | https://confluence.ecmwf.int/display/METV/Metview - MacPorts - metview: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: science/metview/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Related links - 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