grib2scan command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

grib2scan: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: grib2scan: command not found

Solutions to grib2scan: command not found

How To Fix grib2scan: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu grib2scan is provided by grads package.

grads is:

The Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) is an interactive desktop tool that is used for easy access, manipulation, and visualization of earth science data. The format of the data may be either binary, GRIB, NetCDF, or HDF-SDS (Scientific Data Sets). GrADS has been implemented worldwide on a variety of commonly used operating systems and is freely distributed over the Internet.

GrADS uses a 4-Dimensional data environment: longitude, latitude, vertical level, and time. Data sets are placed within the 4-D space by use of a data descriptor file. GrADS interprets station data as well as gridded data, and the grids may be regular, non-linearly spaced, gaussian, or of variable resolution. Data from different data sets may be graphically overlaid, with correct spatial and time registration. Operations are executed interactively by entering FORTRAN-like expressions at the command line. A rich set of built-in functions are provided, but users may also add their own functions as external routines written in any programming language.

Data may be displayed using a variety of graphical techniques: line and bar graphs, scatter plots, smoothed contours, shaded contours, streamlines, wind vectors, grid boxes, shaded grid boxes, and station model plots. Graphics may be output in PostScript or image formats. GrADS provides geophysically intuitive defaults, but the user has the option to control all aspects of graphics output.

GrADS has a programmable interface (scripting language) that allows for sophisticated analysis and display applications. Use scripts to display buttons and dropmenus as well as graphics, and then take action based on user point-and-clicks. GrADS can be run in batch mode, and the scripting language facilitates using GrADS to do long overnight batch jobs.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install grads

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install grads.

sudo apt -y install grads

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install grads

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix grib2scan command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.