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Naiara,<div><br></div><div>It is possible to install proj and GDAL on Mac OSX using the open source package manager fink:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">        </span><a href="http://www.finkproject.org">http://www.finkproject.org</a>/</div><div><br></div><div>The finkcommander GUI application makes specifying and installing packages fairly painless. You may need to set fink to use "unstable" distributions to get the most recent releases. </div><div><br></div><div>I hope this helps,</div><div>Dave</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Fink installs packages in /sw, so you will need to add /sw/bin to your path.</div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 3, 2008, at 2:17 PM, Naiara Pinto wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Dear all,<br><br>I have a question about a relatively simple thing..I need to install Proj on a Mac. I tried two things:<br><br>1) donwload the tar file to /usr/local and do:<br>./configure<br>make<br>make install<br><br>2) download the tar file to a local folder /users/naiara/library and do:<br> mkdir proj<br>./configure --prefix=/users/naiara/library/proj<br>make<br>make install<br><br>Either way I didn't get any error messages, but when I type proj I get the message "command not found". I suspect I might need to add an extra line to my .bashrc file, but I am not sure what it should be. I have a Mac OS 10.4.11 and I am trying to install Proj <a href="http://4.6.0.">4.6.0.</a> My real goal is to install GDAL, so I am wondering what the best procedure is to make sure that GDAL can link to Proj.<br> <br>Any help would be greatly appreciated. <br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Naiara.<br clear="all"><br><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Proj mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:Proj@lists.maptools.org">Proj@lists.maptools.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/proj">http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/proj</a></div> </blockquote></div><br><div> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana">----------------------------------------------------</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana">David W. Caress</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana">Senior Research Specialist</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana; min-height: 15.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana">Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana">7700 Sandholdt Road</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana">Moss Landing, CA 95039</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana; min-height: 15.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"><a href="mailto:caress@mbari.org">caress@mbari.org</a></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana"><a href="http://www.mbari.org/~caress/">http://www.mbari.org/~caress/</a></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Verdana; min-height: 15.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana">Phone: 831-775-1775</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Verdana">Fax: 831-775-1620</font></p> </div><br></div></body></html>