Installing GDAL 3.2.0 on Amazon Linux 2

As of this day, this is probably the only and fastest way of installing it.

Package requirements

Based from the GDAL and PROJ build requirements, here is the full list of required packages to install:

• C++11 - cpp version 7.3.1
• PROJ 6 - proj version 6.1.1
  • SQLite3 - sqlite3 version 3.7.17
  • libtiff - version 4.0
  • cmake - version 3.13.1

1. Installation of required packages

Luckilly, we don't have to install everything from source. At least some can be installed through yum.

sudo yum install cpp.x86_64 sqlite-devel.x86_64 libtiff.x86_64 cmake3.x86_64 -y

2. Installation of PROJ

Installation from source, currently there's no other way but this.

cd /tmp
wget https://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-6.1.1.tar.gz
tar -xvf proj-6.1.1.tar.gz
cd proj-6.1.1
./configure
sudo make
sudo make install

Important

Be careful not to install PROJ version 6.2.0 or newer because the one from the yum packages is only SQLite version 3.7.17. Installing PROJ version 6.2.0 would require installing SQLite version 3.11 which you may need to install from source and not with yum.

3. Installation of GDAL

Installation from source, currently there's no other way but this.

cd /tmp
wget https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/releases/download/v3.2.0/gdal-3.2.0.tar.gz
tar -xvf gdal-3.2.0.tar.gz
cd gdal-3.2.0
./configure --with-proj=/usr/local --with-python
sudo make
sudo make install

Testing your installation

which gdalinfo; gdalinfo --version

it should show something like

/usr/local/bin/gdalinfo
GDAL 3.2.0, released 2020/10/26