[R-sig-Geo] rgdal install fails (following GDAL building from source)

[Roger Bivand]

On Mon, 19 Jul 2010, Pierre Roudier wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I'm using the (excellent) rgdal package for a while now, but following
> the build from source of the last GDAL stable release, I can not
> reinstall it.
>
> When I'm asking for install.packages("rgdal"), I got the following error:
>
> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
>  unable to load shared library '/usr/lib64/R/library/rgdal/libs/rgdal.so':
>  libgdal.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
>> From some internet search, I understand that it is possibly due to a
> change in where GDAL has been installed, but I've been unsuccessful to
> fix that so far.

Does gdalinfo --version run? Did you run ldconfig -v as su after 
installing GDAL? Check that GDAL itself can find its own shared objects, 
if it can, then so should rgdal.

Hope this helps,

Roger

>
> Thanks for any hints.
>
> Here is my config:
>
> uname -a
> Linux 2.6.33.6-147.fc13.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jul 6 22:32:17 UTC 2010
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> Distro : Fedora 13 x86_64 (running KDE)
>
> gdalinfo --version
> GDAL 1.7.2, released 2010/04/23
>
> The infamous libgdal.so file is located in /usr/local/lib/
>
> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
> x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
> [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tcltk_2.11.1 tools_2.11.1
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pierre
>
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Roger Bivand
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