[postgis-users] PostGIS 1.4 install troubles

[nicklas.aven at jordogskog.no]

Hallo Ben If I remember right you should have Application Stack Builder from that installation of postgresql. If so, you just mark postgis under spatial extensions for installation and then everything should be fixed.
Hope that helpsNicklas 
2009-09-12 benton101 wrote:


>OS - Ubuntu 9.04 - (installed from a distro from a mag)
>DB - PostgreSQL 8.4 - (installed from a binary package from the official
>site)
>
>Hi,
>I am attempting to install PostGIS 1.4.0 using the install instructions
>provided by the developers. As a new user to ubuntu I am not really
>confident in what I am doing and these are the steps I have used so far;
>
>GEOS -----------------------------------------------------------------
>cd geos-3.1.1
>./configure
>make
>sudo make install
>cd ..
>
>PROJ.4 ---------------------------------------------------------------
>tar xzf proj-4.6.1.tar.gz
>cd proj-4.6.1/nad
>tar xzf ../../proj-datumgrid-1.4.tar.gz
>cd ..
>./configure
>make
>sudo make install
>cd ..
>
>PostGIS --------------------------------------------------------------
>tar xzf postgis-1.4.0.tar.gz
>cd postgis-1.4.0
>./configure --with-pgconfig=/opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/bin/pg_config
>--with-geosconfig=/usr/bin/geos-config
>--with-projdir=/home/benton/proj-4.6.1
>make
>sudo make install
>cd ..
>
>Create a spatially-enabled database ----------------------------------
>sudo su - postgres
>createdb template_test
>createlang plpgsql template_test
>
>Everything at this point seems to be OK and then when I attempt to follow
>these instructions
>psql -d template_test -f
>/opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/share/postgresql/contrib/postgis.sql
>
>This is the last couple of lines for the command run above ...
>
>psql:/opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/share/postgresql/contrib/postgis.sql:6927: ERROR: 
>current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction
>block
>ROLLBACK
>
>Would anyone know what could be the problem here?
>Or better would there be some easier way of getting this installed on my
>machine that the way I am doing it at the moment?
>Thank You
>Ben
>
>
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