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rgdal package installation error

5 messages · Siva Sundaresan, Thiago V. dos Santos, Ben Mazzotta +1 more

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Siva Sundaresan
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I am trying to install the rgdal package under Ubuntu 8.10 with have 
gdal 1.7.2 installed. I get the following error:

On typing:

 > install.packages("rgdal")
Warning in install.packages("rgdal") :
   argument 'lib' is missing: using '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library'

<snip stuff that seems irrelevant>

checking for pj_init_plus in -lproj... yes
./proj_conf_test: error while loading shared libraries: libgdal.so.1: 
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
./proj_conf_test: error while loading shared libraries: libgdal.so.1: 
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Package CPP flags: -I/usr/local/include
Package LIBS: -L/usr/local/lib -lgdal
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating src/Makevars
** libs

<snip other g++ stuff>

installing to /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/rgdal/libs
** R
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices ...
** testing if installed package can be loaded
Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
   unable to load shared library 
'/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/rgdal/libs/rgdal.so':
   libgdal.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ERROR: loading failed
* removing ?/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/rgdal?

The downloaded packages are in
	?/tmp/RtmpQVVEl1/downloaded_packages?
Warning message:
In install.packages("rgdal") :
   installation of package 'rgdal' had non-zero exit status


I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling gdal (using sudo apt-get 
install). I have also tried downloading the rgdal tar.gz file and 
installing using R CMD INSTALL at the shell prompt. I still get the same 
error message as above.

If anyone can help me, I would be very grateful.

Thank you,
Siva
Ben Mazzotta
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Could you show me the output of this command? Thanks

sudo aptitude search gdal
On 7/8/10 8:32 AM, Siva Sundaresan wrote:

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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Dear Thiago,

Thanks! That did the trick.

I poked around the /usr/local/lib directory and I suspect the problem 
had something to do with libgdal.so.1, which I believe is a link to the 
gdal libraries(?). Once that link was created correctly (because of the 
installation of the GDAL libraries) it works ok.

Thanks for your help.

best,
Siva

        
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      Johan Van de Wauw
    

    

      
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A late reply but I still give it since it might be of interest to
people searching the archive:
you should install not only libgdal, but also the package libgdal1-dev
(this holds true whenever you need to compile against a library in
debian/ubuntu: also install the associated -dev package).
so: sudo apt-get install libgdal1-dev
That package contains the headers for building gdal and contains the
unversioned (or partly unversioned) libgdal.so.1 which you need to
build rgdal.

In fact, if I understand it correctly, you might now have actually
built gdal using the headers of the 1.7.2 version and linked against
the 1.4.0 version - which may lead to errors at one or another point.

Johan
PS: In case you are looking for a more recent version of gdal, you
could add the stable or unstable ppa repositories of ubuntugis:
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis

        
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Siva Sundaresan <nepsiva at gmail.com> wrote: