python GDAL 2.1 installation on Ubuntu 16.04

Question

Here will be my sequence of command lines while trying to install gdal2.1 in a UBUNTU virtual machine. My virtual machine is a UBUNTU 16.04 LTS(64bit) I would need gdal2.1 a

Answer 1

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ppa && sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install gdal-bin

sudo apt-get install libgdal-dev

export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include/gdal

export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include/gdal

pip install --global-option=build_ext --global-option="-I/usr/include/gdal/" GDAL==2.0.1