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iknowl...@gmail.com

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Sep 12, 2016, 5:45:27 PM9/12/16
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As I am a new user, I would like to know how to use the LAStools in ubuntu. Please if someone could guide me to install and configure these tools in ubuntu.

Martin Isenburg

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Sep 15, 2016, 12:54:17 PM9/15/16
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Hello Rishabh,

In the subject line you write "libLAS" but in the body of your message you write "LAStools". Note that the two are quite similar but different projects. In November 2007 - a few months after the first version of LAStools went online - the "libLAS" code was forked off by Howard Butler. from the "LASlib" library (the open source code that powers LAStools) and has changed considerably since. You should be able to compile all of "libLAS" and also all of "LASlib" on Ubuntu.

http://liblas.org
http://lastools.org

Here the direct link to the github download for LAStools (that includes LASlib and LASzip):

https://github.com/LAStools

Some parts of LAStools are open source. Some are closed source. The open source LAStools should easily compile on Ubuntu. And by using "wine" you can also use the closed source Windows *.exe binaries on ubuntu. Here are a number of discussion threads in our LAStools user forum for you to peruse:

http://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/lastools/ubuntu%7Csort:relevance

And here some more links including YouTube videos on this topic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xs6qC0mpwE
http://www.facebook.com/jmbangate/posts/10205561198901736
http://www.google.com/search?q=ubuntu+lastools+wine

Regards,

Martin @rapidlasso


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As I am a new user, I would like to know how to use the LAStools in ubuntu. Please if someone could guide me to install and configure these tools in ubuntu.

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