How To Install nf-config on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install libnetcdff-dev

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install libnetcdff-dev

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is nf-config and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install nf-config on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install nf-config on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install nf-config using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libnetcdff-dev

Install nf-config on CentOS 8 using yum

Because nf-config is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install nf-config package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libnetcdff-dev

How to upgrade (update) a single package nf-config using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like nf-config in this example you should use the following command:

yum update libnetcdff-dev

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade libnetcdff-dev

How to Upgrade nf-config on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update libnetcdff-dev

How To remove nf-config from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the nf-config package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove libnetcdff-dev

Extra info and code examples

NetCDF (network Common Data Form) is a set of interfaces for array-oriented data access and a freely distributed collection of data access libraries for C, Fortran, C++, Java, and other languages. The netCDF libraries support a machine-independent format for representing scientific data. Together, the interfaces, libraries, and format support the creation, access, and sharing of scientific data. This package contains headers for the Fortran library.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install nf-config using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the nf-config from CentOS 8.

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