[pdal] conflict in PROJ libraries

[Paul Harwood]

Conda is an environment manager. I sometimes wish more people understood
fully the value of environment management!

There are actually many ways an environment manager could solve what it
seems your problem is. I will quickly go through the simplest scenario. I
am sure you are more than capable of reading the documentation and working
out the tweaks and embellishments for yourself.

Assuming the simplest case from what your OP said - i.e. that
PostGre/PostGIS is currently working and that PDAL is not. In this case you
want to uninstall PDAL (or for even more safety - uninstall everything and
reinstall PostGIS from scratch ..).

Then install and run PDAL in a Conda environment - the steps for that are
as follows:

1 - Install miniconda from https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/miniconda.html,
2 - Read the docs about the basics of how to use it,
3 - create a new environment for running PDAL - let's call it "pdal-env" :

conda create --name pdal-env
conda activate pdal-env

4 - install PDAL by running the following in the same session as above:

conda install -c conda-forge pdal

This command will install PDAL and ALL of its dependencies into the new
environment. This includes the correct version of PROJ for the version of
PDAL. See https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/pdal

At this point in the session, PDAL should be working correctly.

5 - To use PDAL in the future - you need to open a Conda aware session
(i.e. command line session for whatever OS you are on) and activate the
pdal-env environment - i.e.

conda activate pdal-env



On Wed, 8 Mar 2023 at 13:05, Raivo Rebane <raivo at r-systems.ee> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Thank You for answer, but I don't undrestand what I have to do with Conda.
> Install with conda Postgres/Postgis ?
>
> Or what ?
>
> If I start to change PROJ packacges how to know PROJ version
>
> Regards
>
> Raivo
> On 08.03.23 12:56, Paul Harwood wrote:
>
> I am not sure that you can say this is a PROJ problem - it looks like the
> versions of PostGIS and PDAL you have installed are using
> different versions of PROJ and that is clashing - but PROJ is Working As
> Intended in this case.
>
> The solutions (in order of increasing simplicity) are probably :
>
> 1 - Manual work out the versions of all of the software you want to use so
> that there is no version clash,
> 2 - Do what I would do which is - use Conda as an environment manage
> <https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/miniconda.html>r and run PDAL and
> PostGre as separate Conda environments and that will avoid the version
> clash.
>
> To be honest - you could also use 2) above and run them both in the same
> Conda environment and Conda will still ensure that the versions it installs
> do not clash.
>
> On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 at 11:48, Raivo Rebane <raivo at r-systems.ee> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> how can I get help with this issue ?
>>
>> Does PROJ team has any support ?
>>
>> I cant use PDAL
>>
>> Can anybody helps me ?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Raivo
>>
>> On 03.03.23 22:47, Raivo Rebane wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > I have installed Posgres/PostGis 3.3.2 and installed PDAL. Now is
>> > conflict in PROJ libraries I guess, becose a I got error in PDAL
>> > filters.reprojection task:
>> >
>> > ERROR 1: PROJ: proj_create_from_database: C:\Program
>> > Files\PostgreSQL\15\share\contrib\postgis-3.3\proj\proj.db contains
>> > DATABASE.LAYOUT.VERSION.MINOR = 0 whereas a number >= 2 is expected.
>> > It comes from another PROJ installation.
>> > PDAL: Could not import coordinate system 'EPSG:4326': PROJ:
>> > proj_create_from_database: C:\Program
>> > Files\PostgreSQL\15\share\contrib\postgis-3.3\proj\proj.db contains
>> > DATABASE.LAYOUT.VERSION.MINOR = 0 whereas a number >= 2 is expected.
>> > It comes from another PROJ installation..
>> >
>> > How to repair this conflict ?
>> >
>> > Regards
>> >
>> > Raivo
>> >
>> >
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