Installing GDAL

GDAL is a set of tools used for geospatial analysis and is needed across our pipelines and in the main application.

There are a lot of GDAL versions with some significant changes so be weary of different behaviour. The current version in the pipeline is 3.6.4 from ppa:ubuntugis/ppa in linux. This is because github actions is running an old version of linux and this is the most up to date gda available.

on linux

run

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ppa
    sudo apt-get update
	sudo apt-get install gdal-bin

on Mac

This will install a more up to date version. For the most part there are no significant changes but be weary

    brew  install gdal