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[Blair Zajac]

Peter König wrote:
> 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.

What was the problem with these packages?

You could try to rebuild using these sources, as they do successfully build on Ubuntu.

Regards,
Blair

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