[R-sig-Debian] r-cran-rgdal: dependency on libgdal1 unsatisfied in ubuntu 12.04?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 27 September 2014 at 12:08, Matthieu wrote:
| Hi
| 
| I am trying to install the rgdal package through r-cran-rgdal (I had 
| added the ppa), and run into an error in Ubuntu 12.04:
| r-cran-rgdal : Dépend: libgdal1 (>= 1.9.0) mais il n'est pas installable
| 
| in English, libgdal1 1.9 does not seem available in Ubuntu 12.04 (I 
| think version 1.7) comes.
| 
| And indeed, a:
| $sudo apt-get install  libgdal1
| 
| Gives also an error message, saying libgdal1 not available, but 
| suggesting libgdal1h, although installing the latter does not solve 
| anything.
| 
| I looked into several forums, tried to install from several  ppas, but 
| was not able to get it working. Would someone have an idea how to 
| install this unsatisfied dependency?

Have you tried ignoring the pre-built r-cran-rgdal, and installing rgdal
directly from source?

Dirk

PS Ubuntu 12.04 is ancient. I would upgrade, which I do every six months. In
any there *is* a newer LTS for you in 14.04.

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