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Can't find gdal-dvel

Asked by Marcello DiStasio

 purchased "Python Geospatial Development" 3rd Edition and was trying to follow along the instructions in the book.
Among the first things is to install gdal and gdal-devel.
I successfully installed gdal on my Linux\Ubuntu pc but when I then tried to install gdal-devel I ran into problems .
My install session is below. Do you have any suggestions?

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conda install gdal-devel
Fetching package metadata .........
Solving package specifications: .

PackageNotFoundError: Package not found: '' Package missing in current linux-64 channels:
  - gdal-devel

You can search for packages on anaconda.org with

    anaconda search -t conda gdal-devel

martyd@martyd-Satellite-C675D:~$ anaconda search -t conda gdal-devel
Using Anaconda API: https://api.anaconda.org
Run 'anaconda show <USER/PACKAGE>' to get more details:
No packages found
     Name | Version | Package Types | Platforms
     ------------------------- | ------ | --------------- | ---------------
Found 0 packages

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Alex Mandel (wildintellect) said : 		#1

I'm not so sure that the book wants a python package gdal-devel, it might be referring to the header files for compiling gdal. Which on ubuntu you can install with sudo apt-get install libgdal-dev

You may need to contact the book author for clarification.

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Marcello DiStasio (zwitter689) said : 		#2

Alex,
Thanks for the response. I will try the sudo apt-get install libgdal-dev. I already tried to contact the author. In fact I sent him the exact same message as I posted here over a month ago but have not heard anything back from the author. Recently ( a few days ago) I sent that message to the publishers (packtlib.org but as I've experience before on other issues they have not gotten back to me). Again I appreciate your response.

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