Installing GDAL 3.2.1 on Amazon Linux 2

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Installing GDAL 3.2.1 on Amazon Linux 2

As of this day, this is probably the only and fastest way of installing it.

Package requirements

Based from the GDAL and PROJ build requirements, here is the full list of required packages to install:

• C++11 - cpp version 7.3.1
• PROJ 6 - proj version 6.1.1
  • SQLite3 - sqlite3 version 3.7.17
  • libtiff - version 4.0
  • cmake - version 3.13.1

Installation of these packages are covered in the sections below. However, before you proceed with the installation, make sure you are already logged in to your EC2 Amazon Linux 2 via SSH. After logging in, you just need to issue some statements in the command-line.

1. Installation of required packages

Luckilly, we don't have to install everything from source. At least some can be installed through yum.

sudo yum install gcc-c++.x86_64 cpp.x86_64 sqlite-devel.x86_64 libtiff.x86_64 cmake3.x86_64 -y

2. Installation of PROJ

Installation from source, currently there's no other way but this.

cd /tmp
wget https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-6.1.1.tar.gz
tar -xvf proj-6.1.1.tar.gz
cd proj-6.1.1
./configure
sudo make
sudo make install

Important

Be careful not to install PROJ version 6.2.0 or newer because the one from the yum packages is only SQLite version 3.7.17. Installing PROJ version 6.2.0 would require installing SQLite version 3.11 which you may need to install from source and not with yum.

3. Installation of GDAL

Installation from source, currently there's no other way but this.

cd /tmp
wget https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/releases/download/v3.2.1/gdal-3.2.1.tar.gz
tar -xvf gdal-3.2.1.tar.gz
cd gdal-3.2.1
./configure --with-proj=/usr/local --with-python
sudo make
sudo make install

Testing your installation

which gdalinfo; gdalinfo --version

It should show something like

/usr/local/bin/gdalinfo
GDAL 3.2.1, released 2020/12/29

Comments and suggestions

Did I miss something? Are you having some troubles with the installed GDAL? Write them down as comments below. Let's help our selves and others at the same time.

Hello again! I wandered for a while, then find
$ export PYTHONPATH="/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/"
$ python3.9 -c "from osgeo import gdal"
then GDAL worked fine! Thank you so much!

@russellhoff any help?

[ERROR] Unhandled exception during build: Command 01_install_gdal failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/aws/bin/cfn-init", line 176, in <module> worklog.build(metadata, configSets) File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/cfnbootstrap/construction.py", line 135, in build Contractor(metadata).build(configSets, self) File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/cfnbootstrap/construction.py", line 561, in build self.run_config(config, worklog) File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/cfnbootstrap/construction.py", line 573, in run_config CloudFormationCarpenter(config, self._auth_config).build(worklog) File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/cfnbootstrap/construction.py", line 273, in build self._config.commands) File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/cfnbootstrap/command_tool.py", line 127, in apply raise ToolError(u"Command %s failed" % name) cfnbootstrap.construction_errors.ToolError: Command 01_install_gdal failed

Finally I left the idea of using Amazon Elastic Beanstalk and I turned to using AWS ECR and ECS, dockerizing my python/django project. If anybody need help feel free to ask :)

Hello again and again... After threw the comment above, I noticed that gdal did not work fine.

from osgeo import gdal
import numpy as np
ds = gdal.Open('cea.tif', gdal.GA_ReadOnly)
ERROR 4: cea.tif: No such file or directory
ds = gdal.Open('/home/yam-ma/cea.tif', gdal.GA_ReadOnly)
a = np.array([ds.GetRasterBand(i + 1).ReadAsArray() for i in range(ds.RasterCount)])
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/osgeo/gdal_array.py", line 14, in swig_import_helper
return importlib.import_module(mname)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/importlib/init.py", line 127, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File "", line 1030, in _gcd_import
File "", line 1007, in _find_and_load
File "", line 984, in _find_and_load_unlocked
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'osgeo._gdal_array'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "", line 1, in
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/osgeo/gdal.py", line 3832, in ReadAsArray
from osgeo import gdalnumeric
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/osgeo/gdalnumeric.py", line 2, in
from osgeo.gdal_array import *
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/osgeo/gdal_array.py", line 17, in
_gdal_array = swig_import_helper()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/osgeo/gdal_array.py", line 16, in swig_import_helper
return importlib.import_module('_gdal_array')
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/importlib/init.py", line 127, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_gdal_array'

Does anyone know how to solve the issue? Thank you!

I had to add these to my Dockerfile to get it to work:

RUN pip install "setuptools<58.0.0" (before installing GDAL)
RUN cp /usr/local/lib/libgdal.so.28* /usr/lib64/ (after installing GDAL)

Now I can run "from osgeo import gdal" in a python3 shell.

I needed to install this for some R packages to work, sf, rnaturalearth, and leaflet

@ababaian, How/where did you install the R packages after getting all these dependencies installed? I am trying to run R on EMR but having trouble to install geospatial packages ('sf', 'terra', 'lidR').

@diego-gris here's my docker where it's working (last I checked).

https://github.com/ababaian/palmid/blob/main/Dockerfile

when configuring gdal i had to add the flags

--with-libpng --with-libpng-devel

to make gdal link with libpng and find some png symbols