Laszip support on Linux (Ubuntu, 16.04)

[CheeseAnt]

I may be wrong about this, but having a look at the source of base.py, I can see that only binaries are searched for, which are not present on the linux installations of laszip. So, is this module only compatible with opening .laz files on windows?

If anyone has a method of obtaining a binary version for linux systems, that would be equally appreciated, as tips to modifying the code for compatibility.

[kbevers]

So, is this module only compatible with opening .laz files on windows?

No.

If anyone has a method of obtaining a binary version for linux systems, that would be equally appreciated, as tips to modifying the code for compatibility.

There's an example here. Relevant excerpt:

 - git clone https://github.com/LASzip/LASzip.git
  - cd LASzip
  - git checkout 3.1.0
  - cmake .
  - make
  - sudo make install
  - cd ..
  - wget http://lastools.org/download/LAStools.zip
  - unzip LAStools.zip
  - cd LAStools
  - make
  - sudo cp bin/laszip /usr/local/bin
  - sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/laszip /usr/local/bin/laszip-cli

[CheeseAnt]

Thank you, i feel silly for not having found this before.

[Nicholas-Autio-Mitchell]

@kbevers

Getting a problem on the unzip step:

$  unzip LAStools.zip 
Archive:  LAStools.zip
  End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not
  a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the
  latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
  the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of LAStools.zip or
        LAStools.zip.zip, and cannot find LAStools.zip.ZIP, period.

It seems the link (http://lastools.org/download/lastools.zip) returns an Error 404.
The base link to download files (http://lastools.org/download/) also doesn't repsond.

[kbevers]

If only there was a website included in those links that you could open in a browser and find what you need...

[Nicholas-Autio-Mitchell]

Clicking on the two links I sent does now send me to a page where I can select a file to download... When I posted originally, the domain lastools.org was not responding at all.

[glw]

I had issues unzipping it on my Linux VM. I had to download via Windows and unzip, then copy the directory back to my VM.

[Bornlove]

I had issues unzipping it on my Linux VM. I had to download via Windows and unzip, then copy the directory back to my VM.

I did that way and it zipped off, Appreciate

[davidcaron]

The link to LAStools should be:

wget https://lastools.github.io/download/LAStools.zip

I also had issues unzipping it, because the first link returned an html document 🙂

[asadclout]

when i run "make" command after unzip it show this error

cd LASlib && make
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/oc/LAStools/LASlib'
cd src && make
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/oc/LAStools/LASlib/src'
/bin/sh: 1: cd: can't cd to /home/jochen/srd
make[2]: *** [Makefile:155: all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/oc/LAStools/LASlib/src'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:2: all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/oc/LAStools/LASlib'
make: *** [Makefile:2: all] Error 2