This gdal-utils Python package is a sub-set of the GDAL Osgeo Python package. If you've installed the GDAL package you have these utils. However you may wish to get a newer version of the utilities ...
Before opening a GDAL supported raster datastore it is necessary to register drivers. There is a driver for each supported format. Normally this is accomplished with the :cpp:func:`GDALAllRegister` ...