Metview's documentation is now on readthedocs!

Metview on conda

Metview is available on conda for both Linux and macOS. From a conda environment, the following command will install Metview without any need to compile from source:

conda install -c conda-forge metview

Once installed, Metview can be updated with this command:

conda update -c conda-forge metview

There is also a batch-only version of Metview on conda, called metview-batch. This does not include the graphical user interface and is therefore more lightweight and can be used in environments such as Binder. It does include the ability to produce graphical plots, and they must be generated as files (PNG, PDF, SVG, ...) or as inline plots in Jupyter notebooks.

conda install -c conda-forge metview-batch

Metview's Python bindings can then be installed like this:

conda install -c conda-forge metview-python


Community-built Binary Packages

The following link provides binary installations for many Linux platforms:

From Ubuntu 16.04, Metview is available from the standard repositories and can be installed like this:

sudo apt-get install metview

Metview Source Releases

See the Change History for details of each release. See also the Installation Guide.

To build Metview and its ECMWF dependencies in one go, try The Metview Source Bundle.

See also Development Snapshots if you would like to test the very latest versions.

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File Metview-4.3.1.tar.gz First release under Apache 2.0 licence Aug 06, 2012 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.3.10.tar.gz Small improvements May 28, 2013 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.3.11.tar.gz Small improvements Sep 17, 2013 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.3.2.tar.gz Mainly installation fixes Aug 14, 2012 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.3.4.tar.gz New features and fixes. Requires Magics++ 2.18.1 Oct 29, 2012 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.3.7.tar.gz New features and fixes. Mar 11, 2013 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.3.8.tar.gz Mainly fixes and improvements May 08, 2013 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.3.9.tar.gz Critical update May 16, 2013 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.4.10.tar.gz Mainly fixes and improvements Oct 01, 2014 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.4.3.tar.gz New features, changes and fixes Nov 08, 2013 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.4.4.tar.gz Mainly fixes and improvements Feb 06, 2014 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.4.5.tar.gz Mainly fixes and improvements Mar 04, 2014 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.4.6.tar.gz New features and fixes Apr 29, 2014 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.4.7.tar.gz Mainly fixes and improvements May 13, 2014 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.4.8.tar.gz New features and fixes Aug 18, 2014 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.5.3-Source.tar.gz New user interface, CMake for build Mar 13, 2015 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.5.4-Source.tar.gz Improvements and fixes May 14, 2015 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.5.5-Source.tar.gz Improvements and fixes May 27, 2015 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.5.6-Source.tar.gz Improvements and fixes Jun 16, 2015 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.5.7-Source.tar.gz Improvements and fixes Oct 16, 2015 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.6.0-Source.tar.gz New features and improvements Nov 19, 2015 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.6.1-Source.tar.gz New features and improvements Dec 02, 2015 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.6.5-Source.tar.gz New features and improvements Mar 16, 2016 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.6.6-Source.tar.gz Smaller features and improvements May 10, 2016 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.6.7-Source.tar.gz Small fixes and support for using ecCodes for GRIB handling Jun 29, 2016 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.7.0-Source.tar.gz New Download module, and new features in Geopoints to GRIB Jul 19, 2016 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.7.2-Source.tar.gz Small fixes Oct 20, 2016 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.8.0-Source.tar.gz Small new features and fixes; uses ecCodes by default for GRIB handling Nov 23, 2016 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.8.1-Source.tar.gz Small new features and fixes Jan 30, 2017 by Iain Russell
ZIP Archive Metview-4.8.2-Source.tar.gz Bug fixes Feb 01, 2017 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.8.3-Source.tar.gz Fixed compilation with clang, fixed WMS Client crash Feb 06, 2017 by Iain Russell
File Metview-4.8.4-Source.tar.gz Small new features and fixes Mar 23, 2017 by Iain Russell
ZIP Archive Metview-4.8.6-Source.tar.gz Small fixes May 23, 2017 by Iain Russell
ZIP Archive Metview-4.8.7-Source.tar.gz Small fixes Jun 29, 2017 by Iain Russell
ZIP Archive Metview-4.9.1-Source.tar.gz Improvements in Hovmoeller, Cross Section and Macro Oct 10, 2017 by Iain Russell
ZIP Archive Metview-5.0.0-beta-1-Source.tar.gz First beta version of Metview 5.0 Dec 20, 2017 by Iain Russell
ZIP Archive Metview-5.0.1-Source.tar.gz Metview 5 full release Mar 01, 2018 by Iain Russell
File Metview-5.0.3-Source.tar.gz hotfix release May 21, 2018 by Application deploy
ZIP Archive Metview-5.1.0-Source.tar.gz BUFR handling with ecCodes and more Jun 22, 2018 by Sandor Kertesz
File Metview-5.1.1-Source.tar.gz hotfix release Jul 31, 2018 by Iain Russell
File Metview-5.10.0-Source.tar.gz Oct 15, 2020 by Application deploy
File Metview-5.10.1-Source.tar.gz Nov 09, 2020 by Application deploy
File Metview-5.10.2-Source.tar.gz Jan 20, 2021 by Application deploy
File Metview-5.11.0-Source.tar.gz Mar 24, 2021 by Application deploy
File Metview-5.11.1-Source.tar.gz Apr 27, 2021 by Application deploy
File Metview-5.12.0-Source.tar.gz May 19, 2021 by Application deploy
File Metview-5.12.1-Source.tar.gz Jun 17, 2021 by Application deploy
File Metview-5.13.0-Source.tar.gz Aug 26, 2021 by Application deploy
ZIP Archive Metview-5.13.1-Source.tar.gz Fix for Mac running Qt5 Sep 16, 2021 by Iain Russell
File Metview-5.14.0-Source.tar.gz Dec 07, 2021 by Application deploy
File Metview-5.14.1-Source.tar.gz Jan 19, 2022 by Application deploy
File Metview-5.15.0-Source.tar.gz Mar 04, 2022 by Application deploy
ZIP Archive Metview-5.15.1-Source.tar.gz Mar 06, 2022 by Iain Russell
ZIP Archive Metview-5.15.2-Source.tar.gz To enable arm64 build on conda-forge Apr 12, 2022 by Iain Russell
File Metview-5.16.0-Source.tar.gz May 18, 2022 by Application deploy
File Metview-5.17.0-Source.tar.gz Aug 24, 2022 by Application deploy
ZIP Archive Metview-5.17.3-Source.tar.gz Nov 04, 2022 by Iain Russell
ZIP Archive Metview-5.17.4-Source.tar.gz Dec 01, 2022 by Iain Russell
ZIP Archive Metview-5.18.0-Source.tar.gz Jan 26, 2023 by Iain Russell
ZIP Archive Metview-5.19.0-Source.tar.gz Apr 04, 2023 by Iain Russell
ZIP Archive Metview-5.19.1-Source.tar.gz May 17, 2023 by Iain Russell
ZIP Archive Metview-5.19.2-Source.tar.gz Jul 11, 2023 by Iain Russell
ZIP Archive Metview-5.2.0-Source.tar.gz New release Sep 28, 2018 by Stephan Siemen
ZIP Archive Metview-5.2.1-Source.tar.gz Fixes and improvements; also contains style preview images, hence the larger size Oct 23, 2018 by Iain Russell
ZIP Archive Metview-5.2.4-Source.tar.gz Fixes and small improvements Nov 26, 2018 by Iain Russell
ZIP Archive Metview-5.20.0-Source.tar.gz Oct 04, 2023 by Iain Russell
ZIP Archive Metview-5.21.0-Source.tar.gz Dec 14, 2023 by Iain Russell
ZIP Archive Metview-5.21.1-Source.tar.gz Feb 08, 2024 by Iain Russell
ZIP Archive Metview-5.3.0-Source.tar.gz New ecCharts icon, other fixes and improvements Feb 15, 2019 by Iain Russell
File Metview-5.5.0-Source.tar.gz New thermodynamic functions, new internal GRIB interpolation library Feb 15, 2019 by Iain Russell
File Metview-5.5.3-Source.tar.gz production release May 09, 2019 by Application deploy
File Metview-5.6.0-Source.tar.gz production release Jul 15, 2019 by Application deploy
File Metview-5.6.1-Source.tar.gz hotfix release Aug 07, 2019 by Iain Russell
File Metview-5.7.0-Source.tar.gz production release Oct 04, 2019 by Application deploy
ZIP Archive Metview-5.7.2.1-Source.tar.gz hotfix release Nov 07, 2019 by Iain Russell
ZIP Archive Metview-5.7.2-Source.tar.gz copy of 5.7.2.1 for conda Nov 08, 2019 by Iain Russell
ZIP Archive Metview-5.7.3-Source.tar.gz hotfix release Nov 28, 2019 by Iain Russell
ZIP Archive Metview-5.7.4-Source.tar.gz hotfix release Dec 06, 2019 by Iain Russell
File Metview-5.7.5-Source.tar.gz production release Jan 14, 2020 by Application deploy
File Metview-5.8.1-Source.tar.gz production release Mar 10, 2020 by Application deploy
ZIP Archive Metview-5.8.2-Source.tar.gz Apr 01, 2020 by Iain Russell
File Metview-5.8.3-Source.tar.gz Apr 30, 2020 by Application deploy
File Metview-5.9.0-Source.tar.gz Jun 24, 2020 by Application deploy
ZIP Archive Metview-5.9.1-Source.tar.gz Jul 22, 2020 by Iain Russell


3 Comments

  1. I would love to try out MetVIew!
    However installing it is not as simple as this guide describes. Both on Mac and Linux installing with the conda command fails.
    Is there a more step by step instruction document that one can use?

  2. Dear Riccardo Monfardini,

    The latest Metview installation documentation is available on read the docs: https://metview.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html

    If the installation does not work I suggest you report it via the ECMWF support portal:  https://confluence.ecmwf.int/site/support including all the relevant details so that the developers can sort out your problem.

  3. Grazie mille Sandor. The readthedocs documentation helped. 
    Using homebrew and understanding that there is a two step installation process (Binaries first and python interface second) really helped.

    Now I can start exploring the software, cheers!