[postgis-users] Re: Postgis installation: missing pg_config?

[Matthew Pettis]

Hi All,

thanks for all of the help.  Ubuntu did indeed have a 'postgres-8.1-posgis'
package to install, which i did, and now everything works out peachy... i
was trying to learn how to build it from scratch in the likely event i have
to move it to a non-ubuntu environment.

the only thing that took me a bit was that i had to explicitly alter the
password for the 'postgres' user for use with pgadmin3... perhaps i missed
something, but explicitly setting it cleared up my problems.

Thanks again to everybody who helped,
matt

On 2/18/07, Reid Priedhorsky <reid at umn.edu> wrote:
>
> Matthew Pettis wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm on Ubuntu Edgy Eft, have sucessfully built postgresql 8.1, using
> > pgadmin3 (1.4.3).  I'm now trying to install postgis 1.1.7.  when i run
> > configure, the last line says:
> >
> > checking for pg_config... no
> > configure: error: PostgreSQL is required by PostGIS
> >
> > i have postgresql installed and running, but i don't find a pg_config
> > anywhere in the install directory.
> >
> > should i have a pg_config, and have built postgresql wrong?  or, if i
> don't
> > have and don't need it, how do i tell postgis ./configure what it really
> > needs to proceed?
>
> Hi Matt,
>
> A couple of thoughts:
>
> 1. Head for <http://packages.ubuntu.com/> -- there is a form where you
> can search for which package has a particular file you need.
>
> 2. Do you really need to build PostgreSQL yourself? Ubuntu has a very
> nice 8.1 package already, and I believe even a PostGIS package as well
> in Edgy.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Reid
>



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