See below for Ubuntu instructions (for other distros you could probably grab the libgdal-ecw-src deb unpack manually and compile).
#Get libecwj 3.3 (the old SDK), it's available from a number of sources. # If the link below doesn't work, google for "libecwj2-3.3" wget -nd https://api.opensuse.org/public/source/home:jluce2:GEO/libecwj/libecwj2-3.3.tar.bz2 tar -xvjf libecwj2-3.3.tar.bz2 cd libecwj2-3.3 ./configure make sudo make install #Install the gdal ecw plugin source package and build it sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable && sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libgdal-ecw-src build-essential sudo gdal-ecw-build /usr/local sudo ldconfig #this step is missing from UbuntuGIS tutorial #Try it out gdalinfo --formats|grep -i ecw ECW (rw): ERDAS Compressed Wavelets (SDK 3.x) JP2ECW (rw+v): ERDAS JPEG2000 (SDK 3.x) #Then use gdal_translate to convert (assumes bash shell) for f in *.ecw;do gdal_translate $f ${f%%.*}.tif;done Luke If you have received this transmission in error please notify us immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies. If this e-mail or any attachments have been sent to you in error, that error does not constitute waiver of any confidentiality, privilege or copyright in respect of information in the e-mail or attachments. Please consider the environment before printing this email. _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
