Python gdal import error

Question

I installed gdal from source using steps from this answer https://gis.stackexchange.com/a/21739/60378 (ommiting first line sudo apt-get install build-essential python-all-dev as it did not work for me). Everything went without errors. When i try to import osego or gdal it gives me error: undefined symbol: GDALSetRasterUnitType

    >>> import gdal
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/GDAL-1.9.0-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/gdal.py", line 2, in <module>
    from osgeo.gdal import deprecation_warn
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/GDAL-1.9.0-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/osgeo/__init__.py", line 21, in <module>
    _gdal = swig_import_helper()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/GDAL-1.9.0-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/osgeo/__init__.py", line 17, in swig_import_helper
    _mod = imp.load_module('_gdal', fp, pathname, description)
ImportError: /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/GDAL-1.9.0-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/osgeo/_gdal.so: undefined symbol: GDALSetRasterUnitType

Server is using fedora core 14, which I cannot upgrade right now. What could be wrong? Is there any simpler gdal installation method?

Answer 1

I had similar problem and I solved this problem by downgrading of GDAL. I had GDAL 2.2.3 and I downgrade it to version GDAL 2.1.0.

You can install it with:

pip install GDAL==2.1.0

or only for user:

pip install --user GDAL==2.1.0