Installing GDAL python binding Linux
gdal, linux, python
Solution
If you have GDAL installed and `libgdal.so` exists, it looks like the python module is just not finding the library. You can try setting the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` environment variable to point to the directory containing `libgdal.so` (e.g. `/usr/local/lib`). If that works, run ldconfig to update your library settings so you won't have to set `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` every time (which many consider a bad idea).
Problem
I've been trying to install the python GDAL binding from source with ./configure --with-python but when i attemp ``` from osgeo import gdal ``` I get: ``` Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "osgeo/__init__.py", line 21, in <module> _gdal = swig_import_helper() File "osgeo/__init__.py", line 17, in swig_import_helper _mod = imp.load_module('_gdal', fp, pathname, description) ImportError: libgdal.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ``` It seems to me to be an error with swig.