Installing GDAL via FWTools
Posted on December 1st, 2009 by Paul
wget http://home.gdal.org/fwtools/FWTools-linux-2.0.6.tar.gz sudo tar xzf FWTools-linux-2.0.6.tar.gz -C /usr/local sudo /usr/local/FWTools-2.0.6/install.sh sudo vi /etc/profile
# Add /usr/local/FWTools-2.0.6/bin_safe to the global $PATH pathmunge /usr/local/FWTools-2.0.6/bin_safe export PATH USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC
sudo cp /usr/local/FWTools-2.0.6/man/man1/* /usr/local/man/man1/ sudo cp /usr/local/FWTools-2.0.6/man/man3/* /usr/local/man/man3/ sudo cp /usr/local/FWTools-2.0.6/share/man/man1/* /usr/local/share/man/man1/ sudo cp /usr/local/FWTools-2.0.6/share/man/man3/* /usr/local/share/man/man3/ logout
Warning: You may break PHP!
The fwtools_env.* files could be copied to /etc/profile.d/, but if you’re running PHP, you’ll break the mechanism that loads php extensions. I don’t know why.
Reference:
FWTools: Open Source GIS Binary Kit for Windows and Linux
