Error: gdal-config not found while installing R dependent packages whereas gdal is installed

Question

Please point out the point that I am missing:

openSUSE 11.3

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xx@linux-y3pi:~/Desktop/R> sudo R CMD INSTALL rgdal_0.7-12.tar.g         


        

Answer 1

In Ubuntu 18.04

I fixed this by sudo apt install libgdal-dev Hope someone find this helpful. Some above answers seems to be outdated and lengthy.

In earlier versions (which had apt-get)

sudo apt-get install libgdal-dev