liblas 1.2.1 is also available via DebianGIS as a binary and linked against 
GDAL in testing.

http://packages.qa.debian.org/libl/liblas.html


On May 21, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Bruce RAUP wrote:

> Peter,
> 
> You can add a package archive to your system's list of sources that 
> specializes in geospatial software, which makes it very easy to install gdal, 
> grass, qgis, and other related software on your Ubuntu 10.04 system. See
> 
> https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-unstable?field.series_filter=lucid
> 
> and the docs therein.
> 
> [BTW, I'm a relatively new subscriber to this list, mainly just to keep tabs 
> on the goings-on with liblas.  I work at the National Snow and Ice Data 
> Center (NSIDC), and was on the telecon recently with Howard and Dave...]
> 
> Best regards,
> Bruce
> 
> 2010-05-20, 16:19:  Peter Tittmann wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've migrated to on Ubuntu 10.0.4 LTS and am having some issues with
>> liblas install.
>> 
>> GDAL:
>> 
>> Ive installed the latest stable version (1.7.2) from source.
>> 
>> LIBGEOTIFF:
>> Ive installed the latest version (1.3.0) from source.
>> 
>> LibLAS:
>> http://trac.liblas.org/attachment/wiki/1.2.1/liblas-src-1.2.1.tar.gz
>> 
>> Problem 1 references the previous email which I was never able to resolve:
>> 
>> when running ./configure --with-gdal --with-geotiff=/usr/lib
>> 
>> i get this:
>> 
>> checking for stdio.h... yes
>> checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
>> checking for debug enabled... no
>> checking for GDAL... GDAL enabled with gdal-config found in PATH
>> /usr/local/bin/gdal-config reports version 1.7.2
>> checking for ST_Create in -lgeotiff... no
>> checking for libgeotiff... no
>> configure: error: You must configure a libgeotiff if you are using GDAL
>> binaries.  You can configure using a GDAL source tree without
>> libgeotiff, but not from binaries.
>> 
>> so i resigned to not having GDAL and ran ./configure make make install
>> with no errors witch lead to Problem2:
>> when I try to use the command line tools i get the following:
>> $ lasinfo ~/Documents/LiDAR/laswork/big_sub19_fr.las
>> lasinfo: error while loading shared libraries: liblas.so.1: cannot open
>> shared object file: No such file or directory
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for any guidance.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Peter
>> 
>> 
>> On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Howard Butler wrote:
>>> On Jan 13, 2010, at 8:52 PM, Peter Tittmann wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> Two issues I encountered. First attempting to build from the mercurial 
>>>> repository:
>>>> 
>>>> $ sudo ./autogen.sh
>>>> Running aclocal -I m4
>>>> ./autogen.sh: 30: aclocal: not found
>>>> 
>>> You need to install aclocal, autoconf, and automake to be able to build 
>>> libLAS from the mercurial repository.   These are all most likely in a 
>>> single package for your distribution.
>>> 
>>>> checking for GDAL... GDAL enabled with gdal-config found in PATH
>>>> /usr/bin/gdal-config reports version 1.5.4
>>>> checking for libgeotiff... no
>>>> configure: error: You must configure a libgeotiff if you are using GDAL 
>>>> binaries.  You can configure using a GDAL source tree without libgeotiff, 
>>>> but not from binaries.
>>>> 
>>>> Any suggestions on either issue will be most gratefully welcomed...
>>>> 
>>> If you give configure the path to gdal-config, you will also need to give 
>>> it the location of libgeotiff.  By providing binary GDAL support, you 
>>> enable libLAS to take advantage of coordinate system operations and enable 
>>> the las2ogr command, but you do not give it geotiff keys support.  That 
>>> must be provided separately.
>>> 
>>> Howard
>>> 
>>> PS, you can give --with-gdal the path to an as-built GDAL source tree to 
>>> take advantage of GDAL's internal support for libtiff/libgeotiff, but this 
>>> is a development hack and it shouldn't be your normal operational mode.
>> 
>> 
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> 
> -- 
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