Upgrading gdal to 1.9 is very easy, just use the ubuntugis-unstable package instead of ubuntugis-stable, then run sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntugis-unstable On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Frank Warmerdam <[email protected]> wrote: > Rick, > > GRIB support is in the default GDAL build. You can confirm it's presence > like this: > > warmerdam@gdal:~$ gdalinfo --format grib > Format Details: > Short Name: GRIB > Long Name: GRIdded Binary (.grb) > Extension: grb > Help Topic: frmt_grib.html > Supports: Virtual IO - eg. /vsimem/ > > In any event, the warning/error messages make it clear the GRIB code is in > play, but something about your file is not working with the existing GRIB > code. > > BTW, I was able to translate your file to GeoTIFF successfully though I also > see the message about not finding GRIB or TLDP. > > Best regards, > Frank > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Rick Wayne <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi y'all, >> >> I am struggling with getting some GRIB2 files, obtained from an upstream >> provider, into PostGIS. The error messages I'm receiving (and they're pretty >> much the same whether I invoke raster2pgsql, gdal_retile.py, or gdalinfo on >> the file) certainly imply that the GDAL driver knows something about GRIB: >> >> gdalinfo test.grib2 >> Warning: Inside GRIB2Inventory, Message # 2 >> ERROR: Couldn't find 'GRIB' or 'TDLP' >> There were 4 trailing bytes in the file. >> Driver: GRIB/GRIdded Binary (.grb) >> >> On the other hand, running "gdalinfo" and perusing its "the following >> format drivers are configured and support output" lines, .grb/GRIB does not >> appear. >> >> Currently I have gdal-bin 1.7.3-6ubuntu3 from universe/science and >> libgdal1-1.7.0 from universe/libs installed. >> >> So either GRIB2 support is there and my file is somehow incompatible (if >> you care to have a look, it's at >> http://www.soils.wisc.edu/~wayne/test.grib2, and wgrib2 works just fine with >> it), it's not there, or it's there but only for GDAL input, not output. >> >> If I need to upgrade, or replace my current packages with the UbuntuGIS >> ones, I can certainly do that. But I'm reluctant to embark on that project >> -- or, say, building everything from source -- unless I have a pretty clear >> problem diagnosis, which I don't have the experience to puzzle out in a >> reasonable amount of time. >> >> Thanks for your help. This was supposed to be so easy! Heh. >> >> Rick Wayne >> Sr. Systems Programmer >> UW Soil Science >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> UbuntuGIS mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu >> http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki >> > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- > I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, > [email protected] > light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam > and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Software Developer > > > _______________________________________________ > UbuntuGIS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu > http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki > _______________________________________________ UbuntuGIS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki
