[Ubuntu] gdal 1.9.1 installation

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Hello Alassane,

First of all, you should tell us what you actually want to achieve.
You may be better of using the gdal libraries which are already part
of ubuntu rather than compiling your own version.

If you want to use the version of gdal included in ubuntu install the
package libgdal-dev . You can do so using your favorite package
manager or using the command prompt: sudo apt-get install libgdal-dev

If you do that your command will probably work without extra effort.

If there is a good reason to install your own version, you can still
do so, but you should be aware that you are probably installing to
/usr/local instead of /usr.

In that case you should adjust for the include:
gcc -o test test.cpp -I /usr/local/include/gdal -lgdal

adjusting the linking is slightly more work.try running ldconfig (as
root so sudo ldconfig) first after the installation. If that does not
work make sure  that the directory /usr/local/lib is part of
/etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig again.

Johan

Johan

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 9:12 PM, alassane toure <atourej at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was able to run it successfully but the following command did not work..
> gcc -o test test.cpp -I /usr/include/gdal -lgdal
>
> Any thoughts?
> Thanks,
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Johan Van de Wauw
> <johan.vandewauw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On ubuntu, run "sudo make install"
>>
>> Alternatively, you may wait a few days until gdal 1.11.1 hits
>> ubuntugis-unstable.
>>
>> Johan
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 8:11 PM, alassane toure <atourej at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Group,
>> > I downloaded the gdal version 1.11.1 and followed instructions provided
>> > in
>> > http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/BuildingOnUnix
>> >
>> > % cd gdal
>> > % ./configure
>> > % make
>> > % su
>> > Password: ********
>> > # make install
>> > # exit
>> >
>> > All went well but without a 'su' credential, I was unable to complete
>> > the
>> > installation.
>> > I am running windows and unix on the same machine with the same access
>> > username and password.  Do i need to create a su account
>> >
>> > or is there another way to have the gdal compiler working again?
>> >
>> > I appreciate your help
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Alassane
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Alassane Toure <atourej at gmail.com>
>> > 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?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for your help
>> >
>> >
>> >
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