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Installing GDAL

Asked by Bernardo on 2014-05-29

Hello,

I am new in Ubuntu, I am now making the transition from Windows to Ubuntu...
I want to install GDAL and its libraries, packages etc. on Ubuntu 13.10, but I do not know exactly why.

Can I install that via apt-get?
Should I use a certain repository?

Or it is better to biuld it from source, downloading the files?
In this case, which files do I have to download?

Thank you very much!
Sorry about the begginers question!

Bernardo Niebuhr

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Status:: Solved

For:: Ubuntu gdal Edit question

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Solved by:: Alex Mandel

Solved:: 2014-05-29

Last query:: 2014-05-29

Last reply:: 2014-05-29

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Alex Mandel (wildintellect) said on 2014-05-29:

On 05/29/2014 01:41 PM, Bernardo wrote:
> New question #249498 on gdal in Ubuntu:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdal/+question/249498
>
> Hello,
>
> I am new in Ubuntu, I am now making the transition from Windows to Ubuntu...
> I want to install GDAL and its libraries, packages etc. on Ubuntu 13.10, but I do not know exactly why.
>
> Can I install that via apt-get?
> Should I use a certain repository?
>
> Or it is better to biuld it from source, downloading the files?
> In this case, which files do I have to download?
>
> Thank you very much!
> Sorry about the begginers question!
>
> Bernardo Niebuhr
>

Yes you can simply do:
sudo apt-get install gdal-bin

If you want more up to date packages you'll want to use the Ubuntugis
PPA by doing the following:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
sudo apt-get update

Then sudo apt-get install whatever you want

More details:
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-unstable
trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/

Thanks,
Alex