[postgis-users] Ubuntu install of PostGIS 1.1.6 failing

[strk at refractions.net]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 06:45:50PM -0500, Allan Doyle wrote:

> The contents of /tmp/pgis_reg_17211/regress_log are not enlightening  
> to me:
...
> psql:lwpostgis.sql:39: ERROR:  could not load library "/usr/local/src/ 
> postgis-1.1.6/lwgeom/liblwgeom.so.1.1": libgeos_c.so.1: cannot open  
> shared object file: No such file or directory

Not enlighening ?
The dynamic linker can not find libgeos_c.so.1.
Usually this is due to a missing call to ldconfig.
Where do you have libgeos_c.so.1 ?
Is that directory in /etc/ld.so.conf ?
Did you run ldconfig(8) after installation ?

--strk;