[Ubuntu] gdal 1.9.1 installation

[Alassane Toure]

On 05/28/2012 03:30 AM, Nick Ves wrote:
> While compiling gdal from source is extremly useful (and quite 
> rewarding), i wouldnt  recomment downloading the  pre-compliled 
> package: (first do a make uninstall in the directory you "baked" gdal 
> on your own, you might need to sudo it)
>
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install gdal
>
> to check if you have the correct version of gdal install run:
>
> gdal-config --version
>
> nick
>
> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Chaitanya kumar CH 
> <chaitanya.ch at gmail.com <mailto:chaitanya.ch at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Alassane,
>
>     The only suggestion I can make without going  too deep is to run
>     "make clean" before running "make" again.
>
>
>     On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Alassane Toure <atourej at gmail.com
>     <mailto:atourej at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         On 05/25/2012 02:56 AM, Chaitanya kumar CH wrote:
>>         Alassane,
>>
>>         libtool may have some problem.
>>         Replace "./configure" with "./configure --without-libtool"
>>         Make sure you have the format drivers you need listed in the
>>         configure script's output.
>>
>>         On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Alassane Toure
>>         <atourej at gmail.com <mailto:atourej at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>             Roland,
>>             I followed the steps as suggested by the link and a
>>             couple of errors came up after issuing "make"
>>
>>             ....
>>             ....
>>                    -rpath /usr/local/lib \
>>                    -no-undefined \
>>                    -version-info 17:1:16
>>             libtool: link: unable to infer tagged configuration
>>             libtool: link: specify a tag with `--tag'
>>             make[1]: *** [libgdal.la <http://libgdal.la>] Error 1
>>             make[1]: Leaving directory
>>             `/home/alassane/Downloads/gdal-1.9.1'
>>             make: *** [check-lib] Error 2
>>
>>
>>
>>             Any suggestion to fix this?
>>
>>             Again thanks,
>>
>>             Alassane
>>
>>
>>
>>             On 05/24/2012 02:21 PM, Roland van Laar wrote:
>>
>>                 On 05/24/2012 09:16 PM, Alassane Toure wrote:
>>
>>                     Group,
>>                     I need help to install GDAL 1.9.1 on Ubuntu
>>                     12.04.  I first downloaded gdal-1.9.1.tar.gz,
>>                     uncompressed it and executed  ./configure.  Where
>>                     do I go from here?
>>
>>
>>                 Have you read:
>>                 http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/BuildingOnUnix
>>                 It contains the information needed for building GDAL.
>>
>>                 Roland
>>
>>
>>                     Thanks for your help
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>>
>>
>>         -- 
>>         Best regards,
>>         Chaitanya kumar CH.
>>
>>         +91-9494447584 <tel:%2B91-9494447584>
>>         17.2416N 80.1426E
>
>         Thanks Chaitanya,
>         I used your suggested command and again, a couple of errors
>         are reported after "make" was issued (see below).  FYI, I had
>         installed gdal-1.8.0 on a 32-bit Oneric OS without problem.  I
>         recently moved to 64-bit Precise OS and installation of
>         gdal-1.9.1 appear non-trivial.  Any suggestion to fix this? 
>         Again, Thanks,
>
>         ...
>         ...
>         /usr/bin/ld:
>         /home/alassane/Downloads/gdal-1.9.1/frmts/o/aigccitt.o:
>         relocation R_X86_64_32S against `.rodata' can not be used when
>         making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
>         /home/alassane/Downloads/gdal-1.9.1/frmts/o/aigccitt.o: could
>         not read symbols: Bad value
>         collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>         make[1]: *** [/home/alassane/Downloads/gdal-1.9.1/libgdal.so]
>         Error 1
>
>         make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/alassane/Downloads/gdal-1.9.1'
>         make: *** [check-lib] Error 2
>
>
>
>
>
>     -- 
>     Best regards,
>     Chaitanya kumar CH.
>
>     +91-9494447584 <tel:%2B91-9494447584>
>     17.2416N 80.1426E
>
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>
Nick,
I followed your instructions but the system response was "E: Unable to 
locate package gdal" after issuing the last command "sudo apt-get 
install gdal".  Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Alassane
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