Trying to install libgdal-dev. The purpose is for use with liblas. Here is my attempt.
sudo apt-get install libgdal-dev ----> libgdal-dev : Depends: libdap-dev but it is not going to be installed
sudo apt-get install libdap-dev -----> libdap-dev : Depends: libxml2-dev but it is not going to be installed
Can't locate anything in synaptic relevant to the solution. seems like i might need to sudo udpate && sudo upgrade, which hasn't changed anything.
What should i do?
I have experienced this issue after upgrading from Ubuntu precise (12.04) to quantal (12.10). I believe something went wrong during the upgrade of libxml2, and the old version remained.
The way you can solve it is by downloading a newer build of libxml2 from the Quantal's lauchpad repositoring and installing it manually. Choose a build for your system, and install using:
sudo dpkg -i libxml2_2.8.0+dfsg1-5ubuntu2.1_amd64.deb
I couldn't solve it using apt-get/aptitude, as they seemed to detected the precise version as the latest.