To use GDAL with SpringBoot in Ubuntu: Apt install gdal-bin, gdal-data, libgdal-java (optionally libgdal26, don't know whether it's necessary) Set the Environment variables in Eclipse: GDAL_DATA = /usr/share/gdal LD_LIBRARY_PATH = /usr/lib/jni:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH Reference: http://geoexamples.blogspot.com/2012/05/running-gdal-java.html