[postgis-users] Problems installing on Linux

Tue Aug 6 10:44:26 PDT 2013

Sorry Brian, but I'm not sure what that means. There are a few scripts in
the postgis 2 contrib directory. Do I just run them like I've been running
the above commands e.g. psql -d yourdatabase -f postgis.sql
On 6 Aug 2013 18:08, "Wilkins, Brian" <bwilkins at harris.com> wrote:

> I am coming in a little late, but when I did an upgrade, I had to run my
> dump through one of the postgis update scripts in the contrib directory.
> Did you do that?
>
> Brian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
> postgis-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of James David Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2013 12:54 PM
> To: PostGIS Users Discussion
> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Problems installing on Linux
>
> 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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