Difference between revisions of "GDAL"

Revision as of 18:56, 25 May 2019

Best install using standard system package manager, such as apt-get (Ubuntu), yum (Fedora), or macports (OSX).

The current download page is from http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/. However, web searches lead to dead links or irrelevant redirects.

Some apparently legacy documentation is at https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki which appears to be legacy but as far as I can tell it is actually the current one, and also leads to another download page.
The documentation for version 2.4.0 was installed as described above here.

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 Best install using standard system package manager, such as apt-get (Ubuntu), yum (Fedora), or macports (OSX).
-==Download==
+==Download of source code==
-Downloading GDAL is very confusing. Web searches lead to dead links or irrelevant redirects. Documentation is nowhere to be found. The sofware installs without man pages. Typing gdal utilities from the command line with -help does produces nothing useful. But following works:
+The current download page is from http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/. However, web searches lead to dead links or irrelevant redirects.
-* Download the appropriate version of sources from http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/  as tar.gz file
-* expand the file
-* install doxygen if needed, and type doxygen in the top directory of the source
-* open file html/index.html
 ==Documentation==
 * Some apparently legacy documentation is at https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki which appears to be legacy but as far as I can tell it is actually the current one, and also leads to another download page.
 * The documentation for version 2.4.0 was installed as described above [http://demo.openwfm.org/web/gdal-2.4.0/html/index.html here].