[postgis-users] Problems installing on Linux

James David Smith james.david.smith at gmail.com
Tue Aug 6 09:53:56 PDT 2013


On 6 August 2013 15:38, Rémi Cura <remi.cura at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I had trouble with geos.
> Strangely, I had to turn postgres down, then make clean in geos, then build
> and install, then clean postgis, then build and install, then restart
> postgres.
> I had error if not stopping my (local) server, and if not cleaning geos and
> postgis before building
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rémi-C
>
>
> 2013/8/6 Mike Toews <mwtoews at gmail.com>
>>
>> On 6 August 2013 22:49, James David Smith <james.david.smith at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Mike,
>> >
>> > Thanks for the reply. I thought that I had the latest version of GEOS,
>> > so I just did 'locate geos' and it found quite a few files. They seem
>> > to be grouped into the below folders:
>> >
>> > /depot/shared/geos-3.0.3/
>> > /depot/shared/geos-3.3.5/
>> > /opt/geos-3.3.8/include/geos/
>> > /depot/shared/pgrouting/geos-3.0.0/
>> > /depot/shared/pgrouting/geos-3.3.5/
>> > /opt/Geos/
>> >
>> > I guess that this is causing the problem.
>> >
>> > Though when I do the "./configure" command for PostGIS I have been
>> > pointing the it towards:
>> >
>> > /opt/geos-3.3.8/bin/geos-config
>> >
>> > Which should make it use the latest version of GEOS no?
>> >
>> > Sorry for not being very technical, I'm slowly getting the hang of
>> > linux...
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > James
>>
>> Technical is always good here. Sometimes it is necessary to update the
>> shared library cache by running "ldconfig" after various "make
>> install" commands. It might need to be run as root (or with sudo, if
>> you have that).
>>
>> Also, sometimes, it could be also necessary to either add the LIBDIR
>> to /etc/ld.so.conf, or add a .conf file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/, or to
>> fiddle around with the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to point
>> to the directory with the current versions of .so shared libraries.
>> After any changes with these, run "ldconfig" to update the system
>> cache. Yet another good tool is "ldd" to see which libraries are being
>> loaded. For example:
>>
>> $ ldd /usr/pgsql-9.0/lib/postgis-2.0.so
>>
>> should show you which other .so objects are being referenced.
>>
>> -Mike
>> _______________________________________________

Hi Mike/Remy/all,

Thanks for your help. I'm making progress. Please see below. My
install is now using geos-3.3.8. Or seems to be.

ldd /usr/pgsql-9.0/lib/postgis-2.0.so

        linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff735fc000)
        libgeos_c.so.1 => /opt/Geos/lib/libgeos_c.so.1 (0x00002b4411d4d000)
        libproj.so.0 => /opt/Proj/lib/libproj.so.0 (0x00002b4411f74000)
        libjson.so.0 => /opt/json/lib/libjson.so.0 (0x00002b44121ca000)
        libxml2.so.2 => /opt/LibXml/lib/libxml2.so.2 (0x00002b44123cb000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00002b441270e000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00002b4412922000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00002b4412ba5000)
        libgeos-3.3.8.so => /opt/Geos/lib/libgeos-3.3.8.so
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00002b44132ab000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00002b44135ab000)
        libjson-c.so.2 => /opt/json/lib/libjson-c.so.2 (0x00002b44137ba000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00002b44139c3000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000003f53000000)

The following commands now seem to work:

psql -d yourdatabase -f postgis.sql
psql -d yourdatabase -f postgis_comments.sql
psql -d yourdatabase -f spatial_ref_sys.sql

And when I go into my database and do SELECT postgis_full_version I
get the following:

POSTGIS="2.0.4SVN r11660" GEOS="3.3.8-CAPI-1.7.8" PROJ="Rel. 4.6.1, 21
August 2008" LIBXML="2.7.6" LIBJSON="UNKNOWN" TOPOLOGY

However it says that Topology and Raster support are not present. So I
thought that I could now run the following commands to install those
too:

psql -d yourdatabase -f rtpostgis.sql
psql -d yourdatabase -f raster_comments.sql
psql -d yourdatabase -f topology/topology.sql
psql -d yourdatabase -f doc/topology_comments.sql

However when I run them I get an error. The first line is:

psql:/usr/pgsql-9.0/share/contrib/postgis-2.0/rtpostgis.sql:48: ERROR:
 could not load library "/usr/pgsql-9.0/lib/rtpostgis-2.0.so":
libgeos-3.2.0.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory

Any idea why there is still mention of libgeos-3.2.0  ?  I thought I'd
sorted that out now?

Thanks

James


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