[R-sig-Geo] installing rgdal on Ubuntu 6.10

[Roger Bivand]

On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Patrick Giraudoux wrote:

> Tim Keitt a écrit :
> > 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.

Am I right that the conclusion is that, for Ubuntu, the required packages 
are:

libgdal1-1.*-dev for the header files and gdal-config;
libgdal1-1.* for the libraries; and probably
gdal-bin for the GDAL applications if needed externally?

Should I put this on Rgeo?

Searching "gdal" on http://packages.ubuntulinux.org/ does lead to what is 
available for a given distribution.

Roger


> 
> 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
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> > -- 
> > Timothy H. Keitt, University of Texas at Austin
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