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

[Paragon Corporation]

Mary,
 
Unfortuantely I don't have a 8.3 handy around to test with at the moment
though I will soon.  The libiconv-2.dll is sometimes present and sometimes
not and the installer should skip it if its already present.  I'll double
check to make sure we didn't mess that up when packaging last. 
 
Regarding the 
 
http://ftp.postgresql.org/pb/projects/pgFoundry/stackbuilder/postgis-pg83-se
tup-1.5.3-2.exe
 
I'll check with Dave Page on that.  That one is a distribution network
issue.
 
 Regarding using 8.3 verses a newer version of PostgreSQL.  We build the
windows installers for 1.5 for 8.4,9.0, and 9.1 as well so not wanting to
move to 2.0 shouldn't stop you from using 
a newer version of PostgreSQL.  I would at least go with 8.4 since 8.3 will
be out of support in a year or less and I don't recall there being any
issues with going from 8.3 to 8.4
 
You would simply just restore your backup on the new PostgreSQL 8.4 and
things should just work (if you had the same 1.5 on your old machine)
 
You might have to run the 1.5 minor upgrade script but that should be all.
 
BTW: we also have the 1.5.4 binaries up too --
http://www.postgis.org/download/windows/#windbinaries
But we haven't finished packaging the installers yet.  To use the binaires,
you just need to extract the files into your PostgreSQL install folder and
run the batch script with the relevant settings.
 
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 Mary
O'Brien
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 3:41 AM
To: postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net
Subject: [postgis-users] error with installation of postgis1.5 on Windows 7-
please help



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-se
tup-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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