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On 10/13/2011 2:44 PM, Bill Thoen wrote:
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<font size="+1">I've been at this all day but I still don't know
what I'm doing, and it's not working <b><big>for </big></b>me
yet. I'm trying build a a compatible collection of GIS software
using the ELGIS and related repositories. I once had this
working, then I somehow got postgres 9.0 on there, which started
throwing errors every time I tried to upgrade, so I unloaded
everything and tried to build it back up with yum.<br>
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First of all, I'd like to make sure I've got the right repos and
that they are configured correctly. (I'm running CentOS 5.5
Linux) Are these the right ones?<br>
</font><font size="+1"><tt># yum repolist<br>
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror<br>
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile<br>
* base: mirror.raystedman.net<br>
* epel: fedora-epel.mirror.lstn.net<br>
* extras: mirror.team-cymru.org<br>
* updates: centos.mirror.lstn.net<br>
Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Base<br>
Finished<br>
Excluding Packages from CentOS-5 - Updates<br>
Finished<br>
repo id repo name
status<br>
base CentOS-5 - Base
3,538+28<br>
elgis EL GIS 5 -
x86_64 136<br>
epel Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 5 - x86_64
6,740<br>
extras CentOS-5 -
Extras 235<br>
pgdg84 PostgreSQL 8.4 5 -
x86_64 150<br>
updates CentOS-5 -
Updates 246<br>
repolist: 11,045<br>
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In the Centos-Base.repo file I'm told by various docs to add
'exclude=postgresql*' to the Base and Updates sections. Is that
right? But I'm having trouble getting a version of postgresql
compatible with Postgis. I think my first problem is that I
don't understand repositories nor yum yet so is there a
relevant "how to" or wiki entry that explains these things in
terms of setting up an 8.4 version of postgresql and getting it
to work with postgis, gdal, ogr, and all the rest? The ideal
solution for me would be a cookbook recipe that provides All the
steps from file preparation to reloading the database plus all
the steps in between. But I've scraped this computer down to the
bare metal twice but not been able to get a working GIS machine
out of it yet.<br>
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The repo files are in /etc/yum.repos.d/ (which is consistent
with what yum.conf has in it) and it appears that it wants to
use the /<big><b>var</b></big>/lib/pgsql/data for the data.<br>
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If I need to supply additional telemetry to diagnose the
problem(s) , just ask me. I'm sort of at the end of my rope
here, and not too sure what to try next.<br>
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TIA ,<br>
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Bill Thoen<br>
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