Installing GDAL via FWTools

Posted by Chief on Dec 1, 2009 in System Administration
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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

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