[postgis-users] Problems installing on Linux

[James David Smith]

On 8 August 2013 16:43, Wilkins, Brian <bwilkins at harris.com> wrote:
> postgis.sql.lst is the manifest file used to read in the sql functions, tables, etc. It is the original SQL plus .lst concatenated onto the filename.
>
> Make sure /usr/pgsql-9.0/share/contrib/postgis-2.0/ has permissions set to 755. For example, chmod 755 /usr/pgsql-9.0/share/contrib/postgis-2.0/
>
> Or you can copy the script to like /tmp along with your sql and make sure your user can write to /tmp.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On 8 August 2013 16:13, Wilkins, Brian <bwilkins at harris.com> wrote:
>> See here:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2517106/why-do-i-get-use-command-no
>> t-found-when-i-run-my-perl-script
>>
>> Could be your shell.
>>
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>> David Smith
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>> On 8 August 2013 16:02, James David Smith <james.david.smith at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 8 August 2013 15:57, Wilkins, Brian <bwilkins at harris.com> wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> James
>>
>> Also if I run "  perl -v  "   then I get:
>>
>>  "  This is perl, v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi  "
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>
> Great stuff Brian. I've no idea how you knew that. But putting 'perl'
> at the start seems to get it started. Though another problem unfortunately!
>
> ------------WHEN I RUN THE SCRIPT-------- perl /usr/pgsql-9.0/share/contrib/postgis-2.0/postgis_restore.pl
> /usr/pgsql-9.0/share/contrib/postgis-2.0/postgis.sql
> james_traffic_restored james_traffic_05082013.sql > restore.log
>
> ---------THIS IS WHAT I GET ---------------- Converting /usr/pgsql-9.0/share/contrib/postgis-2.0/postgis.sql to ASCII on stdout...
>   Reading list of functions to ignore...
>   Writing manifest of things to read from dump file...
> :    Cannot open manifest file
> '/usr/pgsql-9.0/share/contrib/postgis-2.0/postgis.sql.lst'
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I've made a tmp folder in my home directory.

/home/james/temp

It now has the following in it:

postgis_upgrade_20_minor.sql
topology.sql
legacy_gist.sql
raster_comments.sql
topology_upgrade_20_minor.sql
legacy_minimal.sql
restore.log
uninstall_legacy.sql
legacy.sql
rtpostgis_legacy.sql
uninstall_postgis.sql
postgis_comments.sql
rtpostgis.sql
uninstall_rtpostgis.sql
postgis_restore.pl
rtpostgis_upgrade_20_minor.sql
uninstall_topology.sql
postgis.sql
spatial_ref_sys.sql
postgis.sql.lst
topology_comments.sql

I run the following:

perl temp/postgis-2.0/postgis_restore.pl temp/postgis-2.0/postgis.sql
james_traffic_restored traffic_backup_08082013.sql > restore.log

But still get error:

Converting postgis.sql to ASCII on stdout...
  Reading list of functions to ignore...
  Writing manifest of things to read from dump file...
pg_restore: [archiver] input file does not appear to be a valid archive
postgis_restore.pl: pg_restore returned an error

It sounds like it doesn't like the file type. So I did a new dump like so:

pg_dump --verbose -F t --file traffic_backup_08082013_v3.sql
james_traffic_backup

I thought that this would make a TAR file which is what it seems to
want. So I now do pg_restore again:

perl temp/postgis-2.0/postgis_restore.pl temp/postgis-2.0/postgis.sql
james_traffic_restored traffic_backup_08082013_v3.sql > restore.log

However I still get the same error:

Converting postgis.sql to ASCII on stdout...
  Reading list of functions to ignore...
  Writing manifest of things to read from dump file...
pg_restore: [archiver] input file does not appear to be a valid archive
postgis_restore.pl: pg_restore returned an error

Aaaargh. What an earth file format does it want it to be? Or maybe
this error is misleading?

Thanks

James