[postgis-users] Linux installation

[Josh Jordan]

If you try to compile postgis 2 in a debian system, "apt-get build-dep
postgis" helps a lot

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Mathieu Basille
<basille at ase-research.org>wrote:

> Dear Steve,
>
> As a complement to what Paolo said: I don't know about other distros, and
> I'll talk only about Debian which I use on a daily basis. A fresh Debian
> install (stable or testing or even sid) is not up-to-date in terms of GIS
> packages. Examples:
>
> - QGIS: last release is 1.7; Debian only provides 1.4 in all flavours of
> Debian;
> - GDAL: last release is 1.8.1; Debian provides 1.6 for stable, 1.7 for
> testing, and 1.8 for experimental, which is hardly installable due to
> dependency troubles (but they are working on it).
>
> I don't mean that Debian is a bad choice... Especially since I'm using it
> as my primary platform! It is indeed very good for many reasons. But if you
> want cutting-edge GIS tools, you'll need to tweak Debian a bit. For
> example, you can find how to install most recent QGIS versions here:
> http://www.qgis.org/wiki/**DownloadFr#Debian<http://www.qgis.org/wiki/DownloadFr#Debian>
>
> Back to PostGIS now. If you want the latest stable release, which is
> 1.5.3, a simple
>
> [sudo] aptitude install postgis
>
> under testing should do the trick. If you want to run stable (which is a
> good choice), you can use some apt-pinning to be able to install packages
> from testing, or you can use PostGIS 1.5.2 with the previous command line.
>
> If you're interested in the development version, i.e. PostGIS 2.0 with
> raster support, it'll be slightly more complicated to have a complete GIS
> platform (but not impossible I guess). For instance, you'll need to compile
> everything by hand from GDAL 1.8 to PostGIS 2.0 through QGIS... But in this
> case, there is no GIS-related reason to use Debian: compilation should be
> the same under any Linux distro, so just pick up the one you like (or the
> one for which you have people to help you around).
>
> Hope this helps,
> Mathieu.
>
>
> Le 11/11/2011 04:19, Paolo Cavallini a écrit :
>
>> Il 10/11/2011 17:41, Steve.Toutant at inspq.qc.ca ha scritto:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Sorry for cross-posting on several lists, but we are in the process of
>>> taking some important decisions, on the OS to use...
>>> For several years we have mapserver, gdal and Postgis, etc... running
>>> on a Windows server.
>>> We plan to migrate our GIS tools from the Windows server to SUSE Linux
>>> Enterprise Server 11.
>>> I heard bad comments on using SLES with mapserver, postgres/postgis,
>>> gdal, etc...Taht the installation of these tools was a pain compare to
>>> OpenSUSE or UBUNTU.
>>> Comments on using and maintaining GIS infrastructure with SLES 11
>>> would be very appreciated.
>>>
>>>  Hi all.
>> I think having GIS packages ready and updated is the most important
>> thing in choosing a Linux distro. Debian should be the best, as it is
>> updated and wdely used and tested.
>> All the best.
>>
>> --
>> Paolo Cavallini
>> See:http://www.faunalia.it/pc
>>
>>
>>
>> This body part will be downloaded on demand.
>>
>
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