[Qgis-user] Re: Problem with gdal_vrtmerfe

[Maciej Sieczka]

Agustin Lobo pisze:
> I run:
> 
> alobo at alobo-laptop:~/CHINA$ ./gdal_vrtmerge.py -separate -o tm2.vrt *.tif
> 
> and get:
> ./gdal_vrtmerge.py: line 1: !DOCTYPE: No such file or directory
> ./gdal_vrtmerge.py: line 2: PUBLIC: command not found
> ./gdal_vrtmerge.py: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
> ./gdal_vrtmerge.py: line 3: ` 
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">'
> 
> I'm using ubuntu hardy, have gdal and FWTools 2.0.6
> (i.e. gdal_merge.py works fine)
> 
> Is there anything I have to do in order to install gdal_vrtmerge.py ?

You have downloaded the file wrong.

Propably you went to [1], right-clicked the [2], "saved as", tried to 
run the file. This won't work because what you got is an XHTML file. You 
have to download it raw: go to [1], *left-click* [2], navigate to 
bottom, left click "Original Format".

[1]http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1985
[2]http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/attachment/ticket/1985/gdal_vrtmerge.py

Maciek

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