HPC:GDAL

This page provides instructions for installing GDAL on our HPC system. The instructions below are for v2.2.3 of the GDAL package but should work for the latest version of GDAL in the 2.x series - v2.4.2 (at the time of writing these instructions).

GDAL Installation

STEP 0

Launch an interactive session (ALL PACKAGE INSTALLATION LISTED BELOW MUST BE DONE IN AN INTERACTIVE SESSION)

[asrini@consign ~]$ bsub -Is bash
Job <57475473> is submitted to default queue <interactive>.
<<Waiting for dispatch ...>>
<<Starting on node061.hpc.local>>

[asrini@node061 ~]$

STEP 1 Download GDAL source and md5sum files

wget http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.2.3/gdal-2.2.3.tar.gz

wget http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.2.3/gdal-2.2.3.tar.gz.md5

STEP 2: Check the md5sum


md5sum -c gdal-2.2.3.tar.gz.md5

STEP 3: Unpack tarball and install

NOTE: The instructions below will install GDAL under $HOME/software; Change the "--prefix" path if you wish to install this package elsewhere.


tar -zxvf gdal-2.2.3.tar.gz
cd gdal-2.2.3
./configure --prefix=$HOME/software
make
make install

r-gdal package installation

See this page for r-gdal installation instructions.

To install r-gdal, you must first install GDAL (see instructions above ) and Proj.4

After installing both GDAL and PROJ.4, you can then install r-gdal with the following steps: