Error 'GDAL extension not installed' while installing cartaro

Question

I am trying to install Cartaro on my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I have followed every step from this guide: http://cartaro.org/documentation/installation

But on the 'Verify Requirements' page I get this warning which says ''GDAL extension not installed'. Also when I click on proceed with installation, on Setup database page I see mysql and SQLite as options type not PostgreSQL as shown here

Here is what I did:

After using

sudo unzip geoserver-2.3.5-war.zip geoserver.war -d /var/lib/tomcat7/webapps/

I opened /etc/default/tomcat7 and added the following code in the end

JAVA_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS} -DENABLE_JSONP=true"

Then I edited geoserver/WEB-INF/web.xml and added the following code just after web-app starting tag.

  <session-config>
    <session-timeout>33333</session-timeout>
  </session-config>

Please tell me what did I do wrong and what is the correct way to install the GDAL extension.

Thanks

Answer 1

The page Building and installing the PHP GDAL extension in the Drupal Community Documentation is helpful.

The main part being to download and install from source, php5-gdal from its github repository. Some development tools may need to be installed before-hand.

phpize
./configure
make
sudo make install

Then configure and enable the module.

sudo echo -e "; configuration for the PHP GDAL extension\nextension=gdal.so" > /etc/php5/mods-available/gdal.ini
sudo php5enmod gdal

Followed by restarting the apache web service. For example:

sudo service apache2 restart

or

sudo service httpd restart

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Tested on Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy.

Answer 2

Have you tried it with this command in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install python-gdal

you can also install more

sudo apt-get install python3-gdal python-gdal gdal-bin

or even more, just to make sure that you have everything:

sudo apt-get install python3-gdal python-gdal gdal-bin libgdal-dev libgdal1-dev  libgdal1h