[Ubuntu] Noob question: Does GDAL in the UbuntuGIS (or universe/science) packages have GRIB2 support?

[Etienne Tourigny]

Upgrading gdal to 1.9 is very easy, just use the ubuntugis-unstable
package instead of ubuntugis-stable, then run
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-unstable


On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> Rick,
>
> GRIB support is in the default GDAL build.  You can confirm it's presence
> like this:
>
> warmerdam at gdal:~$ gdalinfo --format grib
> Format Details:
>   Short Name: GRIB
>   Long Name: GRIdded Binary (.grb)
>   Extension: grb
>   Help Topic: frmt_grib.html
>   Supports: Virtual IO - eg. /vsimem/
>
> In any event, the warning/error messages make it clear the GRIB code is in
> play, but something about your file is not working with the existing GRIB
> code.
>
> BTW, I was able to translate your file to GeoTIFF successfully though I also
> see the message about not finding GRIB or TLDP.
>
> Best regards,
> Frank
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Rick Wayne <fewayne at wisc.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi y'all,
>>
>> I am struggling with getting some GRIB2 files, obtained from an upstream
>> provider, into PostGIS. The error messages I'm receiving (and they're pretty
>> much the same whether I invoke raster2pgsql, gdal_retile.py, or gdalinfo on
>> the file) certainly imply that the GDAL driver knows something about GRIB:
>>
>> gdalinfo test.grib2
>> Warning: Inside GRIB2Inventory, Message # 2
>> ERROR: Couldn't find 'GRIB' or 'TDLP'
>> There were 4 trailing bytes in the file.
>> Driver: GRIB/GRIdded Binary (.grb)
>>
>> On the other hand, running "gdalinfo" and perusing its "the following
>> format drivers are configured and support output" lines, .grb/GRIB does not
>> appear.
>>
>> Currently I have gdal-bin 1.7.3-6ubuntu3 from universe/science and
>> libgdal1-1.7.0 from universe/libs installed.
>>
>> So either GRIB2 support is there and my file is somehow incompatible (if
>> you care to have a look, it's at
>> http://www.soils.wisc.edu/~wayne/test.grib2, and wgrib2 works just fine with
>> it), it's not there, or it's there but only for GDAL input, not output.
>>
>> If I need to upgrade, or replace my current packages with the UbuntuGIS
>> ones, I can certainly do that. But I'm reluctant to embark on that project
>> -- or, say, building everything from source -- unless I have a pretty clear
>> problem diagnosis, which I don't have the experience to puzzle out in a
>> reasonable amount of time.
>>
>> Thanks for your help. This was supposed to be so easy! Heh.
>>
>> Rick Wayne
>> Sr. Systems Programmer
>> UW Soil Science
>>
>>
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