[postgis-users] PostGIS install

[Paul Ramsey]

Far easier is to use the appropriate system tools:

On Linux:

- First make sure that /usr/local/bin appears in /etc/ld.so.con
- Run /sbin/ldconfig
- Profit

You will find that all symlinks are automatically added and maintained.

On Tuesday, February 10, 2004, at 01:54 AM, Darren Houston wrote:

>
> Good evening accidentally turned into good morning for me :).
>
> The problem is that PostGIS can't find the GEOS library 
> (libgeos.so.1). Did you
> install GEOS? Did you install Proj4 support? You don't need to install 
> any of
> these (although I would recommend them), but before you compile and 
> install
> PostGIS you need to edit the makefile in the PostGIS source directory 
> and change
> USE_PROJ= to 0 and USE_GEOS= to 0 (or conversely, keep them at their 
> default, 1,
> install GEOS/Proj4 and modify GEOS_DIR and PROJ_DIR to point to your
> installations). If you have installed GEOS and/or Proj4, make a 
> symbolic link to
> the GEOS/Proj4 libraries in /usr/local/pgsql/lib/ using the command;
>
> ln -s location_of_library name_of_library
>
> On my system, for GEOS, I cd to /usr/local/pgsql/lib and type;
>
> ln -s /usr/local/geos/lib/libgeos.so.1.0.0 libgeos.so
> ln -s /usr/local/geos/lib/libgeos.so.1.0.0 libgeos.so.1
> ln -s /usr/local/geos/lib/libgeos.so.1.0.0 libgeos.so.1.0.0
>
> This will make symbolic links called libgeos.so, libgeos.so.1, 
> libgeos.so.1.0.0
> that point to the actual GEOS library named libgeos.so.1.0.0. Do not 
> use hard
> links. The -s specifies symbolic. Type man ln for help.
>
> If you didn't install GEOS/Proj4, you could try installing Proj4 and 
> GEOS into
> /usr/local, making the symbolic links and seeing what happens. This is
> theoretical, I've never tried this. After that, you will have to 
> compile and
> install PostGIS again.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
>
> Eric Wright <eric.linux at shaw.ca> said:
>
>> Good evening,
>> I am trying to install the postgis package and when I get to the step:
>> |    psql -d yourtestdatabase -f postgis.sql
>>
>> I get the following error:
>>     psql:postgis.sql:44: NOTICE:  type "histogram2d" is not yet 
>> defined
>>     DETAIL:  Creating a shell type definition.
>>     psql:postgis.sql:44: ERROR:  could not load library
>> "/usr/local/pgsql/lib/libpostgis.so.0.8":
>>     libgeos.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or 
>> directory
>>
>> I am can browse to the directory where the ||/usr/local/pgsql/lib/
>> directory and verify that the file (or a link to the file) does exist 
>> so
>> I am at a loss as to why it is complaining.
>>
>> In case you have not guessed yet I am fairly new to the Linux thing so
>> any help will be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Eric W
>> |
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>
>
>
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> Darren Houston
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