installing rgdal on Ubuntu 6.10

Tim Keitt a ?crit :

Try installing libgdal1-1.3.1-dev which contains the header files and 
should have gdal-config.

OK. Just dit it... Worked well and rgdal could then be installed from R. 
First trials within R and some rgdal examples came OK.

Anyway, I will look further about "prevu" and also a way to manage with 
up-dated version of gdal as Roger advised.

Many thanks,

Patrick

You may run into problems with incompatible library versions. Ubuntu 
updates every 6 months, but the R world seems never to stop rolling 
along.

I've found the Ubuntu "prevu" utility extremely helpful as it fully 
automates backporting from the development branch. Take a look here: 
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=268687 
<http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=268687>

Once installed and configured, you  can build an R 2.4 package for 
Edgy by typing "prevu r-base-core". Similarly for gdal "prevu gdal". 
The utility will put the new packages into a local repository and ask 
if you want to add it to your sources list. If you do add the local 
repository, the next "apt-get dist-upgrade" will install your 
backported packages. I know it sounds a bit complicated, but it really 
is fairly easy.

I'm hoping CRAN in the future will try to stay compatible with the R 
version found in the major binary distributions!

Cheers,
THK

On 12/16/06, * Patrick Giraudoux* <patrick.giraudoux at univ-fcomte.fr 
<mailto:patrick.giraudoux at univ-fcomte.fr>> wrote:

    Deal all,

    I am moving from Windows XP to Ubuntu and hopefully work on the two
    plateform and more an more on Linux (an old dream). Thus I am a
    newby in
    Linux. I have installed R 2.4 (note that the R-cran repository
    must be
    added manually to the synaptic package manager - if not one get R 2.3
    from universe).

    gdal 1.3.1 has been installed via the synaptic package manager (thus
    most likely well).

    The trouble comes installing the package rgdal. I get this message:

    The gdal-config script distributed with GDAL could not be found.
    If you have not installed the GDAL libraries, you can
    download the source from  http://www.gdal.org/
    If you have installed the GDAL libraries, then make sure that
    gdal-config is in your path. Try typing gdal-config at a
    shell prompt and see if it runs. If not, use:
    --configure-args='--with-gdal-config=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config' echo
    with appropriate values for your installation.

    ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rgdal'
    ** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/rgdal'

    typing gdal-confing at a shell prompt does not run indeed, but I don't
    have the lesser idea of what the next line advised to be used means:
    --configure-args='--with-gdal-config=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config' echo

    For instance, I have tried
    locate gdal-config
    to find were the directory or file mentioned may be found... useless.

    I have googled a bit through mailing lists where this question is
    sometime raised, but did not find helpful answers.

    Any hint?

    Patrick