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[Peter König]

Hi all,
I am trying to install PostGIS on an Ubuntu-Linux for two days now -
unfortunatly without success. Since I saw some postings here about
successful installations on Ubuntu and the AMD64-architecture, maybe there
is someone who could give me a hint.

The first attemt was to install Postgres via the source-distribution:
apt-get -b source postgresql-8.0 postgresql-server-dev-8.0

I also installed proj and geos.

Then I copied PostGIS-archive (tried 1.1 and 1.06) to the pg-contrib-dir
in the "build-tree"-path and extracted them there. After configuring
(1.1)/ modifiying the Makefile.config (1.0.6), proj and geos were
correctly found, "make" and "make install" proceeded without errors (but
many warnings [*] ) and I got liblwgeom.so.xx in
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.0/lib (liblwgeom.so.1 and liblwgeom.so in the same
dir were link to it)

Then I chowned the regess-dir to postgres:postgres and started "make" in
that dir (as user "postgres") to perform the tests. V 1.0.6 produced a lot
of errors complaining about an uninstalled "geos" and with V 1.1.0 I
received the message, that 8 of 9 tests have failed. Although I see the
PostGIS-Funtions in a new db they do not work.

Another approach was to try to install the ubuntu deb-package of postgis
1.0.6 from arocaware, but it also failed.

Any idea to solve this would be welcome. Thanks,
Peter

[*]:
Warnung: Zeigerziele in Zuweisung unterscheiden sich im Vorzeichenbesitz
Warnung: Zeigerziele bei Übergabe des Arguments 1 von »HexDecode«
unterscheiden sich im Vorzeichenbesitz

May be loosly translated as "the targets of the pointers in the assignment
are differently signed" and "the targets of the pointers of argument 1 of
HexDecode are differently signed" (I am not c-coder ..).