I have been struggling to get python setup to do some image processing, so I really need the http://www.gdal.org/ GDAL libraries installed on CentOS 6.5. I want to install the package in a local folder (maybe /workspace/GDAL) without root access. When I try to build from source, it seems CentOS is missing a bunch of libraries.
Please, web-wizards and sysadmin gurus, can you point me in the right direction?
Thank you.
Jake
UPDATE
I will be using it for opening HDF4, HDF4-EOS files, and have a local installation of the HDF4/HDF5 libraries (say /workspace/HDF). If I can install a binary without root, is there a way to point GDAL to these libraries?