[Gdal-dev] Debian gdal stuck at 1.2.6?

[Bryan Keith]

Maciek Sieczka wrote:
> On Wed, 3 May 2006 15:26:14 -1000
> "Ben Discoe" <ben at vterrain.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> I have a Debian box (Ubuntu 5.10) and would love to release my
>> gdal-depdendent software as a .deb installer, but (as i understand
>> it) this in turn requires GDAL to have a current .deb, so that the
>> dependencies can be resolved in a package manager.  In the Ubuntu
>> package manager, and in the Debian repository pointed to from the
>> GDAL site, there is only GDAL version 1.2.6, now more than a year old.
>>
>> How can this be brought up to the latest GDAL version?  Does it
>> require much work from somebody Debian-savvy, or is it easy?
>>     
>
> VTP? That'd be great to have it packaged for Debian!
>
> There is Gdal 1.3.1 in Debian testing:
> http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=gdal&searchon=names&subword=1&version=testing&release=all
>
> As to Ubuntu, for incoming Dapper still only 1.2.6 is available. I
> can't say if the Debian testing 1.3.1 would work on Ubuntu/other
> Debian derivatives. Anybody?
>
> Maciek
>
>   
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking here, but this information may 
be helpful.  I'm running Gdal 1.3.1 on Ubuntu 5.10 without a problem.  I 
installed via FWTools:

GDAL 1.3.1.0, FWTools 1.0.0a7, released 2005/11/10

Bryan
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