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title: Install TorusOcean on Red Hat Enterprise Linux using the Snap Store | Snapcraft
description: Get the latest version of TorusOcean for on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  - 2D/3D ocean model with ROMS-style numerics
url: https://snapcraft.io/install/torusocean/rhel
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# Install TorusOcean on **Red Hat Enterprise Linux**

# TorusOcean

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#### 2D/3D ocean model with ROMS-style numerics

TorusOcean is a regional 2D/3D ocean model implementing nonlinear shallow
water and primitive equations in sigma/S coordinates with ROMS-style numerics:
Arakawa C-grid, mode-split barotropic/baroclinic solver, Adams-Bashforth 3rd
order time stepping, and optional GPU compute via wgpu (Vulkan/Metal/D3D12).

Features:

* Nonlinear shallow water equations (2D barotropic)
* Primitive equations in sigma/S coordinates (3D baroclinic)
* Arakawa C-grid staggering
* Mode-split time stepping (Adams-Bashforth 3rd order)
* Multithreaded via Rayon
* JSON-based configuration
* CSV and NetCDF output (NetCDF requires system libnetcdf)

### Package name

* torusocean

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### License

* Proprietary

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### Last updated

* 24 April 2026 - latest/edge

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## Enable snaps on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and install TorusOcean

Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.

Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions.

### Enable snapd

Snap is available for [Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8](https://www.redhat.com/en/enterprise-linux-8) and RHEL 7, from the 7.6 release onward.

The packages for RHEL 7, RHEL 8, and RHEL 9 are in each distribution’s respective [Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) (EPEL) repository. The instructions for adding this repository diverge slightly between RHEL 7, RHEL 8 and RHEL 9, which is why they’re listed separately below.

The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 9** with the following command:

```
sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf upgrade
```

The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 8** with the following command:

```
sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
sudo dnf upgrade
```

The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 7** with the following command:

```
sudo rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
```

Adding the *optional* and *extras* repositories is also recommended:

```
sudo subscription-manager repos --enable "rhel-*-optional-rpms" --enable "rhel-*-extras-rpms"
sudo yum update
```

Snap can now be installed as follows:

```
sudo yum install snapd
```

Once installed, the *systemd* unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled:

```
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
```

To enable *classic* snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between `/var/lib/snapd/snap` and `/snap`:

```
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
```

Either log out and back in again or restart your system to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.

### Install TorusOcean

To install TorusOcean, simply use the following command:

```
sudo snap install torusocean --edge
```

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