installation problem on clean system

[tim-salabim]

@edzer I just tried to install sf on a freshly installed Ubuntu 22.04 following the steps outlined in the README, i.e.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libudunits2-dev libgdal-dev libgeos-dev libproj-dev 

When running install.packages("sf") I get the following error:

Installing package into ‘/home/tim/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.2’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/sf_1.0-9.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 3480774 bytes (3.3 MB)
==================================================
downloaded 3.3 MB

* installing *source* package ‘sf’ ...
** package ‘sf’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
configure: CC: gcc
configure: CXX: g++ -std=gnu++11
checking for gdal-config... /usr/bin/gdal-config
checking gdal-config usability... yes
configure: GDAL: 3.6.2
checking GDAL version >= 2.0.1... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether the compiler supports GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to enable C11 features... none needed
checking for stdio.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for gdal.h... yes
checking GDAL: linking with --libs only... yes
checking GDAL: /usr/share/gdal/pcs.csv readable... no
checking GDAL: checking whether PROJ is available for linking:... yes
checking GDAL: checking whether PROJ is available fur running:... ./configure: line 3668: 15370 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) ./gdal_proj
no
configure: error: OGRCoordinateTransformation() does not return a coord.trans: PROJ not available?
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘sf’
* removing ‘/home/tim/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.2/sf’
Warning in install.packages :
 installation of package ‘sf’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
   ‘/tmp/RtmpfJvP4W/downloaded_packages’

Am I missing something?

[edzer]

Is it possible that multiple versions of one of GDAL or PROJ are present?

[tim-salabim]

This is what I see:

After purging I see nothing. After sudo apt install libgdal-dev I see those two pictured above

[edzer]

Yes, because

$ ls -la /bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Dec 11  2020 /bin -> usr/bin

is a symbolic link.

[tim-salabim]

So this is expected?

[edzer]

Wild guess, but would it help if you'd install libsqlite0-dev?

[tim-salabim]

Yes! That solved it. Probably worth mentioning in the README?
Many thanks!