grib2fdb5 command not found

Introduction

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

grib2fdb5: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: grib2fdb5: command not found

Solutions to grib2fdb5: command not found

How To Fix grib2fdb5: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu grib2fdb5 is provided by fdb5 package.

fdb5 is:

FDB (Fields DataBase) is a domain-specific object store developed at ECMWF for storing, indexing and retrieving GRIB data. Each GRIB message is stored as a field and indexed trough semantic metadata (i.e. physical variables such as temperature, pressure, …). A set of fields can be retrieved specifying a request using a specific language developed for accessing the MARS Archive.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fdb5

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

You can also use apt command to install fdb5.

sudo apt -y install fdb5

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

sudo aptitude install fdb5

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix grib2fdb5 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.