[gdal-dev] FITS format not listed in gdalinfo --formats

[Even Rouault]

On jeudi 5 juillet 2018 12:41:08 CEST Susan Borda wrote:
> Hi-
> I'm new to gdal and am trying to use gdalinfo to read a *.fits file
> (astronomy files), specifically the header. When I list the formats
> supported by gdalinfo, I'm only seeing FIT not FITS. Is FITS no longer
> supported?

It is, but you must build GDAL against the CFITSIO library:
http://gdal.org/frmt_various.html#FITS

On Debian and derivatives, this is the libcfitsio-dev package.

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