Try installing libgdal1-1.3.1-dev which contains the header files and should
have gdal-config.

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

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@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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