How to get GDAL >= 2.0.0 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?
Try adding ubuntugis-unstable
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
sudo apt-get update
and install packages from it:
sudo apt-get install libgdal-dev
As ppa:nextgis/dev
caused me a some trouble when installing sp package
here and seem to also cause there
DISCLAMER: I'm not running pure Ubuntu, but Linux Mint which is based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS