<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I don't think the version os the problem since I am running the same. I don't recall what I did exactly but did run ldconfig at some point. Perhaps run that and try again.<div><br></div><div>However I have since learned about pgrpms and in theory installing postgis should be as simple as</div><div><br></div><div><div>rpm -ivh <a href="http://yum.pgrpms.org/reporpms/9.0/pgdg-centos-9.0-2.noarch.rpm">http://yum.pgrpms.org/reporpms/9.0/pgdg-centos-9.0-2.noarch.rpm</a></div><div>yum install postgis90</div><div><br></div><div>This ets the postgres repos setup and then installs postgis and all dependencies from it.</div><div><br></div><div>There is a remote chance you'd need to edit /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo [base] and [updates] sections and add</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; "><br></span></div><div>exclude=postgresql*</div><div><br></div><div>This might be worth a try (I have tried this in a fresh VM and it appears to have worked fine but have not attempted to use it yet). Long term this is a much better approach than building from scratch each time (for me). I am not sure if this includes pgrouting, but it's a good start even if not.</div><div><br></div><div>hth</div><div>charles</div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 24, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Richard Willars wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Hi Charles,<br><br>Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately I've already got boost-devel<br>installed (v1.33.1). I can see there's a newer version of boost<br>available (1.45) but it's not available via yum.. if I can work out<br>how to install it I will, but before I spend ages on that do you think<br>that that minor update would fix the issue?<br><br>Regards,<br>Richard</span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>