[ELGIS] How to enable BigTiff on Centos 6?

David Strom dstrom at ciesin.columbia.edu
Tue Mar 25 07:17:02 PDT 2014


So, why isn't libgeotiff built on libtiff4?

libgeotiff.x86_64      1.3.0-4_0.el6    @elgis

--
Dave

On 3/24/2014 7:57 PM, Volker Fröhlich wrote:
> On 03/24/2014 09:21 PM, David Strom wrote:
>> My colleagues are getting the error, ERROR 6 ...
>> image would be larger than 4GB ...
>> ... and BigTIFF is unavailable..
>>
>>  From within grass (GRASS GIS 6.4.2).
>>
>> Centos 6.4 on this system, and the following installed from elgis
>> repository, etc.:
>>
>> grass.x86_64           6.4.2-8.el6      @elgis
>> grass-libs.x86_64      6.4.2-8.el6      @elgis
>>
>> gdal.x86_64            1.9.2-4.el6      @elgis
>> gdal-devel.x86_64      1.9.2-4.el6      @elgis
>> gdal-java.x86_64       1.9.2-4.el6      @elgis
>> gdal-libs.x86_64       1.9.2-4.el6      @elgis
>> gdal-perl.x86_64       1.9.2-4.el6      @elgis
>> gdal-python.x86_64     1.9.2-4.el6      @elgis
>>
>>
>> libtiff.x86_64         3.9.4-9.el6_3
>> @anaconda-CentOS-201303020151.x86_64/6.4
>> libtiff-devel.x86_64   3.9.4-9.el6_3    @base
>>
>>
>> Odd thing is, we have an Ubuntu 12.0.4 system with slightly older
>> versions, it has no problem with large GeoTIFFs.
>>
>> Do I just need some additional package(s), or is the gdal/grass/libtiff
>> build lacking the capability, so I need to build my own, which I'm
>> trying to avoid, as this is not my specialty.
>>
>> I did try installing libtiff4, no improvement.
>>
>> TIA, for any help from anyone.
>> --
>> Dave
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>
> I suppose you'll need libtiff 4, but libgeotiff must be built on libtiff 4.
>
> Volker
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