[postgis-users] Problem with Installation

[Diez B. Roggisch]

>
> The installation guide says:
> Retrieve the PostGIS source archive from
> http://postgis.refractions.net/postgis-1.0.4.tar.gz. Uncompress and
> untar the archive in the "contrib" directory of the PostgreSQL source tree.
> # cd [postgresql source tree]/contrib
> # gzip -d -c postgis-1.0.4.tar.gz | tar xvf

You are aware that this works too:

tar xzvf postgis-1.0.4.tar.gz

Unix - a secret revealed every day :)

> My problem:
> I can't find the contrib-file.
>
> Anybody knows some help?

How did you install the postgres? Remember, you need the _full_ archive, and 
_must_ have build and installed it from that very archive - not just a 
devel-rpm containing headers.

Regards,

Diez