Trouble getting latest version of GDAL on ubuntu running R

r ubuntu gdal

You may need to uninstall all traces of gdal then re-install it from the ubuntugis-unstable source. The following helped me solve a similar problem:

sudo apt remove libgdal-devsudo apt remove libproj-devsudo apt remove gdal-binsudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable

Make sure a version >= 2.0 appears when you execute this line

sudo apt-cache policy libgdal-dev

If so, run

    sudo apt update    sudo apt install libgdal-dev

I could then successfully execute in R 3.4.2 in Ubuntu 14.04 ("Trusty Tahr"):

install.packages('rgdal')

r ubuntu gdal

The following worked for me

sudo apt-get install gdal-bin proj-bin libgdal-dev libproj-dev

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