[postgis-users] error with installation of postgis1.5 on Windows 7 - please help

[Mary O'Brien]

Hi

I'm trying to install postGIS on Windows 7 and keep getting an installation error.

"Error opening file for writing: C:\Program Files (x86)\PostgresQL\8.3\bin\libiconv-2.dll"
The file libiconv-2.dll exists at this location.
I've installed postgresql8.3 (postgresql-8.3.18-1-windows.exe) and now installing postgis1.3 or 1.4 or 1.5 (I've tried them all) from the Application Stack Builder, and each time get the error " Failed to open http://ftp.postgresql.org/pb/projects/pgFoundry/stackbuilder/postgis-pg83-setup-1.5.3-2.exe   Error: The file does not exist"
So I've downloaded the postgis installer postgis-pg83-setup-1.5.3-2.exe and tied to install this separately. I then get the error "Error opening file for writing: C:\Program files (x86)\PostgresQL\8.3\bin\libiconv-2.dll"

I'm running the installers as Administrator (using the right click/ Run as Administrator option in Windows 7.
I've also tried logging in with administrator login and installing - again the same errors.

I'm installing postgres8.3 and postgis1.5 as this is what I had running on my old machine, and I'm trying to replicate. The metadata seems to be stored in views not tables within the new postgresql 9.1 - not what I want at the moment.

Has anyone experienced this?
Any ideas on why the install keeps erroring?

Your help much appreciated.

Thanks
Mary




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