[pdal] Need help getting started - Can't read compressed file ...

[Andrew Bell]

Either lazperf or laszip will do.  You don't need both.

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 3:03 PM, Adam Steer <Adam.Steer at anu.edu.au> wrote:

> Hi Paul
>
> Install laszip: https://github.com/LASzip/LASzip
>
>  ...or lazperf: https://github.com/hobu/laz-perf
>
> (Are both needed? this I have not tested - but reading laz-perf docs it
> seems you could get away with just laz-perf, which is a simpler install)
>
> …and then rebuild PDAL
>
> In the ‘scripts’ directory of the PDAL github repo are a load of useful
> snippets on how to install dependencies and configure builds with optional
> libraries. I cobbled together my PDAL native build on centOS using bits
> from the linux-install-scripts and the dockerfile in there.
>
> Happy building!
>
> Adam
>
> > On 25 May 2017, at 5:44 am, Paul Schrum <paul.schrum at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I am the GSoC student who will be integrating PDAL into GRASS this
> summer.
> >
> > I am trying to go through a basic starting task in PDAL indenpendent of
> GRASS just to get started.
> >
> > On Ubuntu Linix (on a PC), I have donwloaded the source code and built
> PDAL, as directed on the 'Using "Unix Makefiles" on Linux part of the Unix
> Compilation page.  I then ran the Testing command it completed
> successfully.  I have not not attempted to configure any optional libraries
> as yet.
> >
> > From the Quickstart page, I downloaded the autzen.laz dataset.
> >
> > I am not using docker, so I took the command from the Quickstart page
> and adapted it to not use docker.  So in a Terminal window I entered:
> > pdal info autzen.laz  -p 0
> >
> > It responded with
> > PDAL: readers.las: Can't read compressed file without LASzip or LAZperf
> decompression library.
> >
> > Can someone explain to me what I should do to get around this problem?
> >
> > - Paul
> >
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