Is there any existing postgis package for Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) compiled against GDAL 2.0+?

Question

I stumbled upon this error while using QGIS (2.18.13) to display a PostGIS raster and read in comment #14 on the same issue, that it is working when using a newer GDAL version.

I have GDAL 1.11.3 used by the DB, which I installed using this instruction (PostgreSQL 9.6.5 & PostGIS 2.3.3). I am curious, if anyone has a PostGIS package for Ubuntu 16.04 compiled against a newer GDAL version. Or do I need to compile it from scratch?

Answer 1

The Ubuntu GIS team has GDAL 2.2.1 for Xenial and has PostGIS 2.3.3 compiled against it. From the PostGIS build logs

checking for gdal-config... /usr/bin/gdal-config
checking GDAL version... 2.1.3

Install with

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ppa;
sudo apt-get update;
sudo apt-get install postgis;

EDIT by OP:

I have tried ubuntugis before and it didn't work, because I used the newest PostgreSQL version (9.6) from the Postgresql repository, but as it turns out, the current ubuntugis-unstable PostGIS version is compiled against PostgreSQL 9.5. So I removed the Postgresql repository from my sources.list and did:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
sudo apt-get update  
sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.5
sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.5-postgis-2.3 postgresql-contrib-9.5 postgresql-9.5-postgis-scripts
sudo apt-get install postgis

That did the trick for me, just to give a little more context.