[postgis-users] still errors installing postgis 1.3.5 with postgres 8.0/rhel5

[Chris Hermansen]

Shad;

Your configure run tells you what's wrong.  See the line "configure:
error: Can't find 'flex'"?  It's telling you that you don't have flex, a
lexical analyzer generator, installed.

You need to issue some "yum" or "rpm" command or the other that will
install flex (sorry I don't know what command that is; I use Ubuntu
Linux which uses a different technology called "apt").  You will
probably find other things you need as well as you re-run configure. 
These are all "basic development tools", kind of like the compiler.

It looks as though you many not have read

 http://www.postgis.org/documentation/manual-1.3/ch02.html#PGInstall

to see what PostGIS specific things you need (Proj4, GEOS).  Why do I
say this?  Well look again at your config messages: "checking for
geos-config... no" oops no GEOS; "checking for proj... no" oops no Proj4.

Building something from sources on Linux isn't hard, but you do have to
read and understand your configure / make messages to be able to take
appropriate action when things don't finish up the way you hope. 
Perhaps you might want to do a bit of background reading in an
introductory Linux book or web-site?

Shad Keene wrote:
> My IT person installed the devel pkgs and the postgis install got a
> little further but still bombed out before finishing.  Any ideas? 
> Both postgis 1.2.1 and 1.3.5 failed.  I'm trying to accomplish this
> remotely, so its frustrating that postgis is not installing
> correctly.  Before switching to linux, it was easy to use the
> stackbuilder on windows to install/update postgis.  linux seems to be
> more difficult.  Thanks for any help! 
>
> Shad
>
>  
>
> here's the recent error messages:
>
>  
>
>  
>
> checking for pg_config... /usr/bin/pg_config
> checking for geos-config... no
> checking for proj... no
> checking for flex... no
> configure: error: Can't find 'flex'
> [root at zoa-project postgis-1.2.1]#      
>
> checking for pg_config... /usr/bin/pg_config
> checking for geos-config... no
> checking for proj... no
> checking for flex... no
> configure: error: Can't find 'flex'
> [root at zoa-project postgis-1.3.5]#   
>
>
>
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