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I'm having problems installing GDAL on my account on a remote Linux server where I can't use sudo. Ultimately I want to use RStudio and Rgdal, but it looks like I need to install GDAL and PROJ4 first.

I'm not a Linux expert!

Here's what I did: created a directory where I have write privileges got gdal from ​http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.1.2/gdal212.zip with wget ran ./configure --prefix=/path/to/my/directory ran make

This is were I had problems. 

~/gdal-2.1.2/.libs/libgdal.so: undefined reference to 'SQLFetchScroll'
~/gdal-2.1.2/.libs/libgdal.so: undefined reference to 'SQLDrivers'
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And about 50 further undefined references, mainly to SQL functions but also to a few XML and other functions.

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  • This doesn't answer your questions, but Linux virtual servers w root access are fairly inexpensive. Do you need to use this specific server?
    – user1462
    Commented Dec 17, 2016 at 19:28
  • Thanks for the suggestion, I'll look into that. I have a lot of space on this particular server, so it would be easier if I could keep my data and do GIS stuff there.
    – Zwentibold
    Commented Dec 18, 2016 at 0:10
  • Try setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH= /path/to/libs or the equivalent, perhaps?
    – user1462
    Commented Dec 18, 2016 at 0:52

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One option is to use the Anaconda package manager. You can use a user only, not root installation to your home directory (or wherever you have write access).

  1. Install miniconda
  2. Create a conda environment with gdal
  3. Activate it
#python 3
conda create -n py3 python>=3 gdal>=2.1
#python 2
conda create -n py2 python=2.7 gdal>=2.1

source activate py3 #or py2
gdalinfo --version
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