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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 of 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>
<br>
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
/etc/lib/pgsql/data for the data.<br>
<br>
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>
<br>
TIA ,<br>
<br>
Bill Thoen<br>
<br>
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