How To Install PDAL on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install PDAL on Fedora 34.
What is PDAL
PDAL is a BSD licensed library for translating and manipulating point cloud data of various formats. It is a library that is analogous to the GDAL raster library. PDAL is focused on reading, writing, and translating point cloud data from the ever-growing constellation of data formats. While PDAL is not explicitly limited to working with LiDAR data formats, its wide format coverage is in that domain. PDAL is related to Point Cloud Library (PCL) in the sense that both work with point data, but PDAL’s niche is data translation and processing pipelines, and PCL’s is more in the algorithmic exploitation domain. There is cross over of both niches, however, and PDAL provides a user the ability to exploit data using PCL’s techniques.
We can use yum or dnf to install PDAL on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install PDAL.
Install PDAL on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install PDAL using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install PDAL
Install PDAL on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install PDAL using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install PDAL
How To Uninstall PDAL on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the PDAL package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove PDAL
PDAL Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/pdal
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/b15994f71d466d6558df55e28618ed318afe7f
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/pdal
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install PDAL on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
