Error during installation of GDAL with ogr2ogr

Question

Here,i am trying to draw the map of my country and for that i got a article http://bost.ocks.org/mike/map/ and the i have installed all the tools said here like as i am user of ubuntu 14.04 , homebrew for linux that is linuxbrew and then through linuxbrew ,i installed the (geospatial Data Abstraction Library)gdal as here said that the gdal install the ogr2ogr.but when checked it with

which ogr2ogr , then i did not respond to anything. then , i tried ..

locate ogr2ogr ,then i also did not respond to anything. but before the installation complete the error message was as follows..

==> make check make[2]: * [check-am] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory /tmp/libspatialite20150624-14363-fi3prm/libspatialite-4.2.0/test' make[1]: *** [check-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory/tmp/libspatialite20150624-14363-fi3prm/libspatialite-4.2.0/test' make: * [check-recursive] Error 1

your help will be appreciated...

Answer 1

ogr2ogr is a tool from GDAL, which is available as a package for Ubuntu (here is the package metadata).

As root, install it with this command:

sudo apt-get install gdal-bin

which should install the GDAL tools and all of the dependencies required.