[postgis-users] Problems installing postgis 2.0 on windows 7 32 bit

[Paragon Corporation]

Andrew,
 
Did you read the README.txt file?  The makepostgisdb.bat packaged you just
need to edit with the location to your PostgreSQL install and then you
should be able to just click on it and be set since it copies all the
necessary files
to the PostgreSQL directory.
 
For the extension piece, I don't think that batch file manually copies those
but it sounds like you may have already copied those to your PostgreSQL
install, so you are probably set there.
 
BTW - the current one up there doesn't have the new ST_GeomFromJSON working
(we just got compile piece working now).  The next one we do hopefully in a
day or so will have that functionality.
 
Hope that helps,
Regina
http://www.postgis.us
 
 


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From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net
[mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Andrew
Joseph
Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 11:28 PM
To: postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net
Subject: [postgis-users] Problems installing postgis 2.0 on windows 7 32 bit



Hello fellow postgis users,



I am trying to figure out how to install the most current postgis 2.0
binaries  for windows 7 32 bit. The instructions posted in the readme and on
the download page are a very unclear and vague to someone like myself who is
not familiar with installing programs other than simply downloading a file,
double clicking it, and then pressing an install button. 



I will explicity explain my  install process below (I didn't download
anything else except the binaries (r8221) and of course postgres 9.1.1 which
is currently installed:
<http://postgis.refractions.net/download/windows/experimental.php>
http://postgis.refractions.net/download/windows/experimental.php)



First, I downloaded the postgis-pg91-binaries-2.0.0svn folder, extracted it
to my C drive and it contained the following files/directories inside:



bin

lib

Plugins.d

share

makepostgisdb.bat

README.txt

README_EXTENSIONS.txt

README_Raster.txt



Then I referred to the directions on the website which state the following:



9.1+ CREATE EXTENSION syntax. To install:

First copy the share/extension files into your PostgreSQL share/extension
folder.

Then in any database you'd like to spatially enable, run at least postgis
(which contains both geometry and raster support) and optionally
postgis_topology commands.

CREATE EXTENSION postgis; 
CREATE EXTENSION postgis_topology;



So, I follow these instructions and put the contents of extension in the
extension folder and the contents of contrib into the contrib folder of my
postgis install. I didn't worry about any of the other files because it
doesn't specify that I needed to in the aforementioned install directions.



Next I load pg admin and try to spatially enable a database by running the
commands specified and I get the following message:



ERROR:  could not access file "$libdir/postgis-2.0": No such file or
directory



********** Error **********



ERROR: could not access file "$libdir/postgis-2.0": No such file or
directory

SQL state: 58P01





I'm sure I am forgetting some steps, but this is all that the install page
stated that I needed to do, so that is what I did. Again, I have no
knowledge of installing programs manually and what that entails.



If someone could please give me explicit instructions on exactly how to get
a fully functional postgis 2.0 install on my computer with all features
enabled and a template created in my database (like the 1.53 postgis stack
builder install creates) I would really appreciate it! 



I have been struggling with this for weeks and I honestly have no idea what
to do as I can't find any detailed instructions online. 



If my version of postgres is incompatible I am happy to get a version that
will work with 2.0 as my main reason for having postgres is to use postgis. 



Thanks,



Andrew

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