[postgis-users] PostGIS 2.0 installation problem - Ubuntu 12.04

[Stephen Woodbridge]

On 5/4/2012 7:16 PM, jeffmeyer wrote:
> Hi Steve - thanks for the speedy reply.
>
> I understand that&  have been able to make install PostGIS as a different
> user, just not as postgres, as the PostGIS instructions direct. Are the
> instructions wrong?
>
> I'm concerned that - by not installing as postgres, as the instructions
> indicate - I might be creating problems for myself down the road. N00b
> questions, I'm sure, but that's me.

You can be the postgres user when you

./configure
make
sudo make install

then do whatever else it says.

If the instructions don't say to use sudo or su to do the make install 
then they are not correct and you should write a bug against them.

Thanks,
   -Steve