On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Patrick Giraudoux 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).
Do you know or are you hoping? Does gdalinfo --version work? gdal-config should live in the same directory as gdalinfo. Have you looked at your PATH (echo $PATH)? Personally, on capable OS I much prefer to build software I need from source, rather than installing binaries. GDAL 1.3.1 is pretty old, 1.3.2 is established, and 1.4.0 will be released very soon. I think people have had similar problems on the GRASS list with this distribution - the promise of binary installs becomes the disappointment of finding that the available packages are either out of date, or make unjustified assumptions about other installed packages, or both. Roger > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-Geo mailing list > R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo > -- Roger Bivand Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
