Metview has been available on conda for a while now, but it was a full installation including the graphical user interface. This could cause problems in environments where key libraries for interactive applications are missing.
Now, there is a new conda module, "metview-batch", which will install a batch-only version of Metview. This includes everything from a standard Metview installation except for the user interface. This makes for a smaller and therefore faster installation on conda. It also allows Metview to run in environments that are not intended for user interfaces to run.
Using this new module, a link to Binder has been set up. Now, if you go to Metview's Python interface on github, you'll find a button that will launch a Binder session for you to interactively try out our example Jupyter Notebooks without even installing Metview on your system!
Just click on the "launch binder" button and Binder will spin up a virtual environment with access to our expanding set of notebooks. Click on any .ipynb file to open it - you can edit and run your copy of the code from your web browser! Note that Binder is a free service, and its response may not be immediate.
To install this smaller version of Metview, from a conda environment type:
conda install metview-batch -c conda-forge
As a reminder, the full version of Metview is also available on conda:
conda install metview -c conda-forge