[R-sig-Geo] install rgdal error on Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid)

[Johan Van de Wauw]

For reference:
Instead of compiling gdal yourself you can also install this package
in debian/ubuntu:
libgdal1-dev

Johan

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 8:11 AM, tsippel <tsippel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, looks like I failed to include the link.  Here it is:
>
> http://www.xastir.org/wiki/HowTo:Ubuntu_10.04
>
> <http://www.xastir.org/wiki/HowTo:Ubuntu_10.04>
>
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 4:57 PM, tsippel <tsippel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Mike-
>> Installing gdal seems to have done the trick as you say.  Thins link was
>> helpful in building gdal (and proj4) for my Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) system.
>> Best regards,
>> Tim
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Michael Sumner <mdsumner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Tim,
>>>
>>> Presumably you don't have GDAL installed - which you need for rgdal to
>>> build from source on Linux.
>>>
>>> (On Windows the binary rgdal comes packaged with all the required
>>> dependencies, because of substantial efforts by the rgdal and R
>>> maintainers. )
>>>
>>> There is a readme in the source package for rgdal in rgdal\inst\README
>>>
>>> Cheers, Mike.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:09 AM, tsippel <tsippel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hi-
>>> > I've just switched from Windows to Linux, and am encountering a problem
>>> with
>>> > installing rgdal in R.
>>> >
>>> >> install.packages('rgdal')
>>> > Warning in install.packages("rgdal") :
>>> >  argument 'lib' is missing: using
>>> > '/home/au/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.10'
>>> > --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
>>> > Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
>>> > trying URL 'http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/src/contrib/rgdal_0.6-27.tar.gz'
>>> > Content type 'application/x-tar' length 1417523 bytes (1.4 Mb)
>>> > opened URL
>>> > ==================================================
>>> > downloaded 1.4 Mb
>>> >
>>> > * installing *source* package ‘rgdal’ ...
>>> > gdal-config: gdal-config
>>> > ./configure: line 1311: gdal-config: command not found
>>> > Error: gdal-config not found
>>> > 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 ‘/home/au/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.10/rgdal’
>>> >
>>> > The downloaded packages are in
>>> > ‘/tmp/RtmprMw6kD/downloaded_packages’
>>> > Warning message:
>>> > In install.packages("rgdal") :
>>> >  installation of package 'rgdal' had non-zero exit status
>>> >
>>> > My sessionInfo is:
>>> >
>>> >> sessionInfo()
>>> > R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
>>> > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>>> >
>>> > locale:
>>> >  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>>> >  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.utf8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8
>>> >  [5] LC_MONETARY=C             LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
>>> >  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8       LC_NAME=C
>>> >  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C              LC_TELEPHONE=C
>>> > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>> >
>>> > attached base packages:
>>> > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>> >
>>> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>> > [1] tcltk_2.10.1 tools_2.10.1
>>> >
>>> > Any advice on this would be appreciated.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> >
>>> > Tim
>>> >
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