[R-sig-Geo] Problem installing rgdal on 64 bit fedora

[Roger Bivand]

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Gabor Grothendieck wrote:

> Actually I tried building proj-4.6.1 from source after my attempt with
> yum failed to get rgdal going but that wasn't sufficient to pull in
> everything needed it seems.

Building from source may need the extra metadata files in:

http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-1.5.zip

for completeness.

>
> Can you give me a link to the proj-epsg source so I can try that?
> Googling for proj-epsg did not give me an obvious hit.
>

For some reason rpmfind points to this:

ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Everything/source/SRPMS/proj-4.6.1-2.fc11.src.rpm

The proj.spec claims to file builds the proj, proj-devel, proj-nad and 
proj-epsg rpms.

Hope this helps,

Roger

PS. the f11 version above as an older datum grid zip archive included.

> Thanks (and to Laura).
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no> wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Laura Poggio wrote:
>>
>>> If you use:
>>> # yum search proj
>>> You should find proj, proj-devel, proj-epsg and proj-nad.
>>> At least it is what yum just found from my computer now.
>>> I had some problems earlier today to access fedora repository. What if you
>>> change repository?
>>
>> Yes, there may be transient problems. From my RHEL box I don't see it now
>> with yum search, but from F11, I do, but only for i586 (which is right for
>> the machine).
>>
>> For some murky reason, the packagers left the shared metadata out of regular
>> proj, and have it in proj-nad and proj-epsg. I got round this earlier by
>> shipping rgdal with the shared metadata files, but they could be staler than
>> those otherwise on the user's platform, so at user request (for OSX among
>> others), dropped the bundled files. I can see:
>>
>> http://fr2.rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/fedora/11/x86_64/proj-epsg-4.6.1-2.fc11.x86_64.html
>>
>> but since I build from source, can't vouch for it.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>>>
>>> Laura
>>>
>>> 2009/9/23 Gabor Grothendieck <ggrothendieck at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>> I am getting this message when I try to install rgdal in R:
>>>>
>>>> Error: proj/epsg not found
>>>> Either install missing proj support files, for example
>>>> the proj-nad and proj-epsg RPMs on systems using RPMs,
>>>> or if installed but not autodetected, set PROJ_LIB to the
>>>> correct path.
>>>> ERROR: configuration failed for package 'rgdal'
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I had previously installed gdal and proj.4 and proj-had using yum
>>>> (and I also tried from source).  From the shell these all seem to
>>>> work in that they return something rather than a message that
>>>> they are missing:
>>>>
>>>> proj
>>>> man proj
>>>> gdal-config
>>>>
>>>> However, when I issue the R command
>>>>
>>>>  install.packages("rgdal", dep = TRUE)
>>>>
>>>> I get a message back (below) that refers to proj-epsg as missing but
>>>> I see no such distribution:
>>>>
>>>> $ yum search proj-epsg
>>>> No Matches found
>>>>
>>>> What is proj-epsg, where is it and how do I get around this?
>>>>
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>> Roger Bivand
>> Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of
>> Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen,
>> Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43
>> e-mail: Roger.Bivand at nhh.no
>>
>>
>

-- 
Roger Bivand
Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of
Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen,
Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43
e-mail: Roger.Bivand at nhh.no