[postgis-users] PostGIS installation problem: contrib folder

[strk at refractions.net]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 05:05:05PM +0200, Didrik Pinte wrote:
> 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?

Should be in top-most directory. Maybe you got a partial
source package (w/out contrib). You should be ok creating
that manually. Example:

	/usr/src/postgresq-8.0.3/contrib

--strk;

> > 
> > 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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