Re: GDAL package error message at install

[Lester Anderson]

Thanks for the information. Is there an Octave gdal package to
install? Mapping-1.2.1 seems to need gdal in order to run something
like rasterinfo.m.

On 18 April 2016 at 17:29, PhilipNienhuis <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Looking at the error messages you run Octave on Windows, probably an
> installer from ftp.gnu.org, right?
>
> If so, GDAL is already installed (to confirm, in Octave do "ls ([OCTAVE_HOME
> filesep 'bin' filesep 'libgdal*'])" (w/o outer double quotes) and you should
> see something like
> libgdal-1.dll
>
> You cannot invoke GDAL directly; it is a so-called "dependency" or IOW a
> program or package invoked by Octave itself or octave-forge packages. In
> this case the mapping package.
>
> I think it suffices to re-install the mapping package using:
>
> more off;
> pkg  install  -verbose  -forge  mapping
>
> (-verbose so you can see what is happening and report any issues if they
> arise)
>
> Philip
>
>
>
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