[postgis-users] Error installing on Linux Centos 5

[Kevin Neufeld]

If you want to install postgresql and postgis to the latest, don't yum 
install them ... download and install them both from source.

1) download and install postgresql
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/install-short.html
2) download and install the latest geos
http://geos.refractions.net/
3) download and install proj.4
http://www.remotesensing.org/proj/
4) change to contrib directory in your source tree of postgresql and 
install postgis
http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/ch02.html

You may have to specify the location of pg_config location with 
--with-pgsql when installing postgis (perhaps as well as the --with-geos 
and --with-proj options as well).

Cheers,
Kevin

Andre Schoonbee wrote:
>
> Hi All
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> Hope this is not a blond moment, But I cannot get postgis 1.2.1 
> installed on my Centos 5. Postgresql is running and I can connect to 
> the database. I have downloaded the tar.gz file and extracted it. When 
> running./configure all goes well until I get and error that PostgreSQL 
> is needed.
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>  
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> Any help will be appreciated.
>
>  
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> I also wan to upgrade both  postgresql and postgis to the latest, but 
> yum is not detecting the latest versions. I downloaded the tar.gz 
> files but this does not upgrade the previous PostgreSQL version when 
> installing it.
>
>  
>
> Please help
>
>  
>
> Andre
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