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The simplest way to use the dballe/wreport/bufr2netcdf software suite is by means of a singularity or apptainer container, distributed in binary form on public Sylabs repository.

1. As a system administrator, install the singularity or the apptainer software package.

2. As a regular user download the bufr2netcdf_r8 container (or a different one) at the specific address either interactively or using the singularity tool directly:

singularity pull library://dcesari/default/simctools:bufr2netcdf_r8

3. Run the software tools through the singularity exec command:

singularity exec ./bufr2netcdf_r8.sif bufr2netcdf -h

A frequently needed singularity argument is the -B <directory> (possibly repeated multiple times) which allows to "see" in the container a mount point other than the one containing the user's home directory.

You can also open a shell in the container and explore it interactively with the command:

singularity shell ./bufr2netcdf_r8.sif

For a more complete documentation see this page in the nwprun package.