[postgis-users] undefined symbol GEOSPreparedCovers on Ubuntu 9.04

[Paul Ramsey]

At root, your postgis is compiled against a more recent version of
GEOS than your system is finding. Track down that old geos and remove
it.

P

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Mike Leahy <mgleahy at alumni.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I've just attempted installing PostGIS 1.4.0 on Ubuntu 9.04 (i386).
> Everything seems to work okay up until I try loading PostGIS into a test
> database:
>
> postgres at mgleahy-dev:~$ psql -f /usr/share/postgresql/8.3/contrib/postgis.sql
> test
> BEGIN
> psql:/usr/share/postgresql/8.3/contrib/postgis.sql:53: NOTICE:  type
> "spheroid" is not yet defined
> DETAIL:  Creating a shell type definition.
> psql:/usr/share/postgresql/8.3/contrib/postgis.sql:53: ERROR:  could not load
> library "/usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/lib/postgis-1.4.so":
> /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/lib/postgis-1.4.so: undefined symbol:
> GEOSPreparedCovers
>
> A quick search on the web didn't turn up anything that looked applicable.  Has
> anyone got an idea what might be wrong?
>
> Best regards,
> Mike
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