[postgis-users] Installing PostGre SQL

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Prestige Makanga wrote:

> Greetings
> I have managed instal PostGreSQL but I am failing to finish off the 
> PostGIS install because of a number of errors. Please take a look at the 
> error message in the .png attached to this email. What could the problem 
> be and how can this be rectified.
>  
> by igoring the errors, the installation still does not complete i get 
> the following error before ending the installation process
>  
> "C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.3/share/contrib/lwpostgis.sql: No such 
> file or directory"
>  
> There seems to be a missing file. How can i go round this to finish off 
> the install.
>  
> Regards

Hi Prestige,

The issue is that the installer doesn't have permissions to write the 
files to the PostgreSQL installation directory - you are running this as 
an administrator, aren't you?


HTH,

Mark.

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