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# GDAL Downloads

## Binary Packages

### FWTools

The FWTools binary releases for Linux and Windows systems include the full set of GDAL libraries, utilities, python support and documentation along with lots of other stuff (including the OpenEV viewer). More information is available at:

http://fwtools.maptools.org/

The FWTools binaries for Linux should work on pretty much any modern Intel Linux system.

### Other Binary Packages

1. RPMs suitable for Fedora Core are maintained by Schuyler Erle on the Mapping Hacks site at http://mappinghacks.com/rpm/. FC4 RPMs are also available from Intevation.

2. RPMs suitable for SuSe and Mandriva are maintained by GDF Hannover Germany site at http://www.gdf-hannover.de/software.

3. Packages for Debian users are available in the official repository http://packages.debian.org/libgdal1.

4. Packages for MacOS X are available via Fink from the Fink repository.

5. For the fink adverse, there is also a build of GDAL distributed as part of the easy-to-install GRASS GIS ON MAC OS X package by Lorenzo Moretti, and a standalone GDAL 1.2.6 installer which includes a Framework version of the GDAL library.

6. For the fink and framework adverse another option is William Kyngesburye's GISLibs package, binaries and build instructions.

## Source

The latest stable release source (1.4.0) is available at:

gdal-1.4.0.tar.gz (source)
gdal140.zip (source)
gdal140doc.zip (html docs)
gdalautotest-1.4.0.tar.gz (python test suite)

The NEWS file describes features added up to the most recent public release.

Past GDAL source releases, and other files are available from from the GDAL primary site, and the mirror site:

http://www.gdal.org/dl
http://download.osgeo.org/gdal

Late each night a development snapshot is captured from CVS and made available. These snapshots are not stable releases, and might (on a bad night) not even build. However, they do contain essentially the latest code. They can be downloaded from:

http://www.gdal.org/dl/daily

Refer to the build instructions for how to build GDAL from source.

### Subversion

The GDAL source is available anonymously from Subversion:

    % svn checkout http://svn.osgeo.org/svn/gdal/trunk/gdal gdal

Update access to the CVS repository can be obtained by arrangement with the maintainer.

$Id: download.dox 10618 2007-01-16 03:01:12Z warmerdam $

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