Compiling PDAL

sudo apt install libgdal-dev
git clone https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL.git
cd PDAL
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make -j
sudo make install

List cmake options with installing this GUI

sudo apt-get install cmake-curses-gui ccmake ..
ccmake ..

To get geowave plugin support, you need JDK. Geowave increases the project’s complexity so I’ll defer that to later, if I get to it.

sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk