[postgis-users] Problem with Installation

[Alex Mayrhofer]

Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
>> 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 :)

this does not work if you're using Solaris tar, BTW.
Solaris - still a secret ;)

alex