installing rgdal on Ubuntu 6.10
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Patrick Giraudoux 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).
Do you know or are you hoping? Does gdalinfo --version work? gdal-config should live in the same directory as gdalinfo. Have you looked at your PATH (echo $PATH)? Personally, on capable OS I much prefer to build software I need from source, rather than installing binaries. GDAL 1.3.1 is pretty old, 1.3.2 is established, and 1.4.0 will be released very soon. I think people have had similar problems on the GRASS list with this distribution - the promise of binary installs becomes the disappointment of finding that the available packages are either out of date, or make unjustified assumptions about other installed packages, or both. Roger
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
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