# Install metview with Homebrew, apt, MacPorts

Meteorological workstation software. Version 5.26.2 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-25. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install libmetview-dev.

## 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 metview
```

  Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: metview from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:metview
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 5.26.2
- **Source summary:** Meteorological workstation software
- **Homepage:** <https://metview.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-25T13:37:54+02:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- metview (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 5.26.2
## Project history and usage

Metview is ECMWF's meteorological workstation for operational and research work. It combines data access, processing, and visualisation with an icon-based interface for interactive use and Python for batch processing.

### Project history

ECMWF and Brazil's INPE/CPTEC developed Metview as a cooperative project, with assistance from Météo-France. Development began in 1991, the first internal ECMWF release arrived in December 1993, and Member States received it in October 1995.

The workstation evolved with OpenGL graphics in Metview 2.0, a new user interface in Metview 3.0, and a substantially revised Metview 4. Later releases incorporated ecCodes and developed the Python interface alongside the original Macro language.

### Adoption history

An ECMWF newsletter reported that by 1999 Metview was used in most ECMWF Member States as well as Brazil and Australia, including operational deployments on several Unix workstation families and Linux. Its current release notes continue to distinguish external releases from versions installed on ECMWF desktop and HPC systems.

### How it is used

Users retrieve or open GRIB, BUFR, MARS, ODB, NetCDF, ASCII, CSV, and geopoints data, then filter, process, inspect, and plot it interactively or from Python and Macro scripts.

### Why package nerds care

Metview is notable in package collections because it is a full scientific workstation rather than a single-purpose command. Packaging it brings together a long-lived meteorological application and ECMWF libraries such as ecCodes and Magics for reproducible local weather-data workflows.

### Timeline

- 1991: Cooperative Metview development began.
- 1993: The first release became available to internal ECMWF users.
- 1995: Metview was released to ECMWF Member States.
- 2010: ECMWF presented Metview 4 as its next-generation meteorological workstation.
- 2018: Metview 5.2 was externally released with the Python interface in active use.

### Related projects

- ECMWF's MARS provides meteorological archive access, ecCodes handles GRIB and BUFR data, and Magics supplies meteorological plotting capabilities used in the same software ecosystem.

### Sources

- <https://metview.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>
- <https://metview.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview.html>
- <https://metview.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release_notes/version_5.2_updates.html>
- <https://www.ecmwf.int/en/elibrary/78551-metview-4-ecmwfs-next-generation-meteorological-workstation>
- <https://www.ecmwf.int/sites/default/files/elibrary/012000/14638-newsletter-no86-winter-199900_1.pdf>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## 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


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/metview.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/metview.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph