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GDAL Downloads
Binary Packages
FWTools
The FWTools binary releases for Linux and Windows systems include the
full set of GDAL libraries, utilities, python support and documentation
along with lots of other stuff (including the OpenEV viewer). More
information is available at:
http://fwtools.maptools.org/
The FWTools binaries for Linux should work on pretty much any modern
Intel Linux system.
Other Binary Packages
- RPMs suitable for Fedora Core are maintained by Schuyler Erle on
the Mapping Hacks site at
http://mappinghacks.com/rpm/.
FC4 RPMs are also available from
Intevation.
- RPMs suitable for SuSe are maintained by GDF Hannover Germany site at
http://www.gdf-hannover.de/software/suse/.
- Packages for Debian users are available in the official repository
http://packages.debian.org/libgdal1.
- Packages for MacOS X are available via Fink from the Fink repository.
- For the fink adverse, there is also a build of GDAL distributed as
part of the easy-to-install
GRASS GIS ON MAC
OS X package by Lorenzo Moretti, and a standalone GDAL 1.2.6 installer which includes a Framework
version of the GDAL library.
- For the fink and framework adverse another option is William Kyngesburye's
GISLibs package,
binaries and
build instructions.
Source
GDAL source releases are available in tar.gz and zip from from the
GDAL primary ftp site, and http mirror site:
http://www.gdal.org/dl
http://gdal.maptools.org/dl
The NEWS file describes features added up to the
most recent public release.
Late each night a development snapshot is captured from CVS and made available.
These snapshots are not stable releases, and might (on a bad night) not even
build. However, they do contain essentially the latest code. They can be
downloaded from:
http://gdal.maptools.org/dl/daily
Refer to the build instructions for how to
build GDAL from source.
CVS
The GDAL source is available by anonymous CVS from the cvs.maptools.org
server:
% export CVSROOT=:pserver:cvsanon@cvs.maptools.org:/cvs/maptools/cvsroot
% cvs login
Password: *enter*
% cvs checkout gdal
Update access to the CVS repository can be obtained by arrangement
with the maintainer.
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