[R-sig-Geo] rgdal package installation error

[Johan Van de Wauw]

A late reply but I still give it since it might be of interest to
people searching the archive:
you should install not only libgdal, but also the package libgdal1-dev
(this holds true whenever you need to compile against a library in
debian/ubuntu: also install the associated -dev package).
so: sudo apt-get install libgdal1-dev
That package contains the headers for building gdal and contains the
unversioned (or partly unversioned) libgdal.so.1 which you need to
build rgdal.

In fact, if I understand it correctly, you might now have actually
built gdal using the headers of the 1.7.2 version and linked against
the 1.4.0 version - which may lead to errors at one or another point.

Johan
PS: In case you are looking for a more recent version of gdal, you
could add the stable or unstable ppa repositories of ubuntugis:
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Siva Sundaresan <nepsiva at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Thiago,
>
> Thanks! That did the trick.
>
> I poked around the /usr/local/lib directory and I suspect the problem had
> something to do with libgdal.so.1, which I believe is a link to the gdal
> libraries(?). Once that link was created correctly (because of the
> installation of the GDAL libraries) it works ok.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> best,
> Siva
>
> Thiago Veloso wrote:
>>
>>  Dear Siva,
>>  Installing GDAL libraries should do the trick. Search in Synaptic or
>> download from this URL: http://packages.ubuntu.com/ro/hardy/libgdal1-1.4.0
>>  Best regards,
>>  Thiago.
>>
>> --- On Thu, 8/7/10, Siva Sundaresan <nepsiva at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Siva Sundaresan <nepsiva at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [R-sig-Geo] rgdal package installation error
>> To: r-sig-geo at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> Date: Thursday, 8 July, 2010, 9:32
>>
>> I am trying to install the rgdal package under Ubuntu 8.10 with have gdal
>> 1.7.2 installed. I get the following error:
>>
>> On typing:
>>
>>> install.packages("rgdal")
>>
>> Warning in install.packages("rgdal") :
>>  argument 'lib' is missing: using '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library'
>>
>> <snip stuff that seems irrelevant>
>>
>> checking for pj_init_plus in -lproj... yes
>> ./proj_conf_test: error while loading shared libraries: libgdal.so.1:
>> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>> ./proj_conf_test: error while loading shared libraries: libgdal.so.1:
>> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>> Package CPP flags: -I/usr/local/include
>> Package LIBS: -L/usr/local/lib -lgdal
>> configure: creating ./config.status
>> config.status: creating src/Makevars
>> ** libs
>>
>> <snip other g++ stuff>
>>
>> installing to /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/rgdal/libs
>> ** R
>> ** inst
>> ** preparing package for lazy loading
>> ** help
>> *** installing help indices
>> ** building package indices ...
>> ** testing if installed package can be loaded
>> Error in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...) :
>>  unable to load shared library
>> '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/rgdal/libs/rgdal.so':
>>  libgdal.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>> ERROR: loading failed
>> * removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/rgdal’
>>
>> The downloaded packages are in
>>    ‘/tmp/RtmpQVVEl1/downloaded_packages’
>> Warning message:
>> In install.packages("rgdal") :
>>  installation of package 'rgdal' had non-zero exit status
>>
>>
>> I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling gdal (using sudo apt-get
>> install). I have also tried downloading the rgdal tar.gz file and installing
>> using R CMD INSTALL at the shell prompt. I still get the same error message
>> as above.
>>
>> If anyone can help me, I would be very grateful.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Siva
>>
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