ArcGIS Pro (3.6.0) Package Manager - Installing PDAL

[dgreenin]

Good Morning,

I am interested in installing PDAL from the ArcGIS Pro (3.6.0) Package Manager by using 'Add Packages' within a clone of the default conda environment (arcgispro-py3).

However, the installation fails due to dependency issues.

Please advise. 

Reference Documentation:

https://pdal.org/en/2.9.2/

"PDAL is a C++ library for translating and manipulating point cloud data. It is very much like the GDAL library which handles raster and vector data." 

[DanPatterson]

from Download — Point Data Abstraction Library (PDAL)

It is strongly recommended that you make use of Conda’s environment management system and install PDAL in a separate environment (i.e., not the base environment). Instructions can be found on the Conda website.

and I wouldn't use a clone of arcgispro-py3, but create a separate environment because PDAL is only available on the conda-forge site and not the main channel.

When you create your environment I suspect python 3.13 should be the python version, then you can use

conda install conda-forge::python-pdal

as suggested in the forge site

Python Pdal | Anaconda.org