[postgis-users] Problem with shp2pgsql, postgis.sql and libpostgis.so.0.7

[Paul Ramsey]

As root, run 'ldconfig'.

Luis Mota wrote:
> 
> Hi, thanks for your help.
> 
> Unfortunatelly, it did not solve my problem...
> 
> I am using red hat 7.0 and therefore I added to my ld.so.conf file the
> following lines:
> /usr/local/lib
> /usr/local/pgsql/lib/contrib
> /usr/local/pgsql/lib
> 
> (I have proj4 installed on /usr/local/lib, I've checked that)
> 
> I added the two other directories because I also cannot run shp2pgsql...
> I get the following message:
> ./shp2pgsql: error while loading shared libraries: libpq.so.2: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> What can be causing this? I have libpq.so.2 in /usr/local/pgsql/lib/ and
> this directory is on my path...
> 
> I still don't understand the error while loading postgis.sql:
> psql:/usr/local/pgsql/share/contrib/postgis.sql:218: ERROR:  Load of
> file /usr/local/pgsql/lib/contrib/libpostgis.so.0.7 failed:
> libproj.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> The file exists in that path...
> 
> Sorry for all these newbie questions, hope you can help me...
> 
> Bye, Luís
> 
> Paul Ramsey wrote:
> 
> >Your proj library is not visible to the postgis library. Ensure that it
> >is visible. On linux, ensure that /usr/local/lib (or wherever you
> >installed proj) is in /etc/ld.so.conf. On solaris, ensure that the proj
> >library is in LD_LIBRARY_PATH... etc.
> >P.
> >
> 
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