[postgis-users] Error from lwpostgis.sql re: GEOS

Paul Ramsey pramsey at refractions.net
Tue May 2 13:52:43 PDT 2006


Is /usr/local/lib in your /etc/ld.so.conf file?
P

On 2-May-06, at 12:24 PM, Daniel Ricard wrote:

> Hello,
> I have downloaded and built from source the latest versions of  
> postgreSQL,
> GEOS, proj4 and postGIS.
>
> I thought that the installation was all good but I'm now getting an  
> error when
> trying to "psql -U postgres -d myDB -f lwpostgis.sql":
>
> ********************************************************************** 
> *
> psql:/usr/local/postgresql/share/contrib/lwpostgis.sql:39: ERROR:   
> could not
> load library "/usr/local/postgresql/lib/liblwgeom.so.1.1":  
> libgeos_c.so.1:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> ********************************************************************** 
> *
>
> The GEOS library is installed in /usr/local and I have correctly  
> set the
> GEOS_DIR in Makefile.config for postGIS.
>
> Here is what configure tells me:
>
>  SUMMARY
>  -------------------------------------------------------
>
>  HOST_OS: linux-gnu
>
>    PGSQL: /usr/local/postgresql/bin/pg_config
>     GEOS: /usr/local/bin/geos-config (with C-API)
>     PROJ: dir=/usr/local/proj4
>
>
> I also ran "ldconfig" after installing GEOS.
>
> Any ideas about what I am doing wrong here?
> Cheers,
>
> Dan
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