[postgis-users] Problems installing on Linux

[James David Smith]

On 6 August 2013 23:32, BladeOfLight16 <bladeoflight16 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:53 PM, James David Smith
> <james.david.smith at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> However it says that Topology and Raster support are not present. So I
>> thought that I could now run the following commands to install those
>> too:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>
>> psql:/usr/pgsql-9.0/share/contrib/postgis-2.0/rtpostgis.sql:48: ERROR:
>>  could not load library "/usr/pgsql-9.0/lib/rtpostgis-2.0.so":
>> libgeos-3.2.0.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
>> directory
>>
>> Any idea why there is still mention of libgeos-3.2.0  ?  I thought I'd
>> sorted that out now?
>
>
> Could rtpostgis-2.0.so be a pg-routing binary? I noticed two of your copies
> of GEOS are in subdirectories of /depot/shared/pgrouting/. Maybe the routing
> binary is still linked to the old GEOS.
>
> As for raster, did you install GDAL? I'm pretty sure that GDAL is required
> for raster support.
>
> Honestly, you have a lot of different pieces and versions installed, and
> since you installed a bunch of them manually, cleaning them out does not
> seem practical. Have you considered just installing on a clean machine
> that's never had PostgreSQL? Or maybe even backing up your data and then
> wiping this machine (assuming there even is data to preserve)? Even if it
> costs a little bit to get a clean machine, I bet it's less than the cost of
> your time (assuming you're on the job).
>
> _______________________________________________

Hi all,

Just reporting back. Have made progress again. We had to clean and
then re-make and install GDAL. If I'm honest I'm not quite sure why,
but once we had done this everything seemed to work ok. :-)

Thanks

James