Roger Bivand a écrit : > 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? OK. I am hoping... Thanks for the warning. As a beginner I was more confident in synaptic tools that in myself compiling but I have already discovered that using synaptic with standard respository leads to install an old R version... and then had to manage otherwise to get R 2.4 installed.
I will check that according to your instructions and give news to the list when I find a way through (I may not be the only one to meet troubles). Thanks a lot, Patrick > 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 available packages are either out of date, or make unjustified assumptions 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 >> >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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