[postgis-users] PostGIS installation problem: contrib folder

[Didrik Pinte]

Le mercredi 10 août 2005 à 07:53 -0700, Justin a écrit :
> Hi readers.
> 
> I'm trying to install PostGIS on a new Linux machine
> and I'm running into some difficulty.  I'm totally new
> to PostGIS and fairly new to Linux, so this may be a
> simple problem.
> 
> I installed PostgreSQL (version 8.0.3) from source
> code using default settings.  It appears to be working
> correctly.  The installation steps for PostGIS say
> that I need to uncompress and untar the archive in the
> "contrib" directory of the PostgreSQL source tree, but
> there doesn't appear to be a "contrib" folder anywhere
> in my PostgreSQL file structure.
> 
> Did I miss a step?  Is it possible to just create a
> new "contrib" folder and untar the PostGIS archive
> there?  If so, what is the default location of the
> "contrib" folder?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Justin

Hi Justin,

What kind of distribution are you using ?

If you are totally new to Linux, it could be very interesting for you to
focus on the application itself and not on the building process.

You will find already build packages for nearly all the distribution. 

Didrik
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