Re: GDAL package error message at install

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Marco Atzeri <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> On 18/04/2016 17:46, Lester Anderson wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I need to install GDAL for use with the mapping package, but when I
>> try the install I get:
>>
>>>> pkg install gdal-2.0.2.tar.gz -auto
>>
>> package is missing file: COPYING
>> error: called from 'verify_directory' in file
>> C:\octave\octave-4.0.0\share\octave\4.0.0\m\pkg\private\verify_directory.m
>> near line
>> 30, column 7
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> Any ideas what the problem is and how it is fixed? I did install
>> mapping fine (but removed it) however it disabled raster read/write.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Lester
>>
>
> There is no gdal package on
> http://octave.sourceforge.net/packages.php
>
> Are you sure that gdal-2.0.2.tar.gz is a octave package ?
>
> It looks like a external library/program
> ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/gdal/2.0.2/
>
> Regards
> Marco
>
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The tarball there doesn't have the structure of a package. So it wont
install, you can try to compile it and see if it works.