[El] Problem installing 'rgdal' package under R 2.12.1 and gdal 1.7.3

[Mathieu Baudier]

> Looking for 'gdal-config' in my file system, I realised that the only
> version that I have is the one corresponding to an old version of gdal
> (1.7.2), which I compiled form source.

Remove this one as well.

> May it be that the version 1.7.3 of gdal for RHEL doesn't include this
> 'gdal-config- file ?

When you look for a missing file, try:

sudo yum provides */gdal-config

In this case this file is part of the gdal-devel package:

sudo yum install gdal-devel

Please tell us if it solved your problem.