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

[Matt Dowle]

Hi,

What I needed to do was :

sudo apt-get install libgdal-dev libproj-dev

Mind you, I'm on Linux Mint Debian Edition, so Ubuntu may be completely 
different.  I'm not sure.

The trick seems to be searching for subsets of the package name; e.g.

$ apt-cache search gdal
dans-gdal-scripts - GDAL contributed tools by Geographic Information 
Network of Alaska
gdal-bin - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library - Utility programs
libgdal-dev - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library - Development files
libgdal-doc - Documentation for the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
libgdal-perl - Perl bindings to the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
libgdal-ruby - Ruby bindings to the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
libgdal-ruby1.8 - Ruby 1.8 bindings to the Geospatial Data Abstraction 
Library
libgdal1 - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
libgdal1-dev - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library - Development files
python-gdal - Python bindings to the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
libgdal1-1.9.0-grass - GRASS extension for the GDAL library
qlandkartegt - GPS mapping (GeoTiff and vector) and GPSr management

See what that returns for you and just keep installing likely candidates 
until it works.  That's what I do.  It sometimes seems to be the ones 
ending -dev (or similar) that are needed.  Even though we aren't 
"developing" such packages for R I suppose because we need to install 
from source on Linux, in a sense we are.

I seem to remember that package needs libproj-dev as well,  which is why 
I included it above. May be wrong on that.

What beats me is why the Linux package dependencies aren't included in 
the package DESCRIPTION file.  I guess that's because they're different 
names on each distro (again, something else that puzzles me)?  So then I 
wonder why not include dependencies for the common distros like Ubuntu 
and Debian derivatives:  that'd be a start.

Still, much better than Windows.

Matt


On 27/09/14 20:08, 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?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Matthieu
>
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