[postgis-users] PostGIS non functional on Ubuntu 14.04

[Rémi Cura]

Hmm, no luck :-(
If you don't want to take any chance,
don't delete the .so, but rename them (like libgeos_c.so.backup).
After any change on your lib, you should ldconfig anyway.

Cheers,
Rémi-C



2014-07-28 17:26 GMT+02:00 António M. Rodrigues <amcrgrodrigues at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> A while back I had a similar problem upgrading from 2.0 to 2.1
>
> Going throught my notes I found this which might help:
>
> ---
> sudo ln -s /usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/lib/postgis-2.1.so
> /usr/lib/postgresql/9.1/lib/postgis-2.0
> ldconfig
> ---
>
> You're basically creating a symbolic link with the older library.
>
> Hope it helps,
> António
>
>
> 2014-07-28 16:10 GMT+01:00 Luís de Sousa <luis.a.de.sousa at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi Mike, thank you for tips.
>>
>> In fact I have several "old" .so files installed:
>>
>> $ locate libgeos_c.so
>> /usr/lib/libgeos_c.so
>> /usr/lib/libgeos_c.so.1
>> /usr/lib/libgeos_c.so.1.8.2
>> /usr/local/lib/libgeos_c.so
>> /usr/local/lib/libgeos_c.so.1
>> /usr/local/lib/libgeos_c.so.1.7.1
>> /usr/local/src/geos-3.3.1/capi/.libs/libgeos_c.so
>> /usr/local/src/geos-3.3.1/capi/.libs/libgeos_c.so.1
>> /usr/local/src/geos-3.3.1/capi/.libs/libgeos_c.so.1.7.1
>> /usr/local/src/geos-3.3.1/capi/.libs/libgeos_c.so.1.7.1T
>>
>> /usr/share/gvSIG-desktop-2.0.0/gvSIG/extensiones/org.gvsig.raster.tilecache.app/install/files/native/libgeos_c.so.1
>> /usr/share/gvSIG-desktop-2.0.0/native/libgeos_c.so.1
>>
>> The problem is that running dpkg only libgeos-3.4.2 shows up:
>>
>> $ dpkg -l | grep libgeos
>> ii  libgeos-3.4.2
>> 3.4.2-4ubuntu1                                      amd64
>> Geometry engine for Geographic Information Systems - C++ Library
>> ii  libgeos-c1
>> 3.4.2-4ubuntu1                                      amd64
>> Geometry engine for Geographic Information Systems - C Library
>> ii  libgeos-dev
>> 3.4.2-4ubuntu1                                      amd64
>> Geometry engine for GIS - Development files
>>
>> Meaning that these old .so must be removed manually. In my experience
>> this always leads to other problems down the road. Any hints on how to
>> safely remove these old files is welcome.
>>
>> Another thing: why were these files left in the system, if the
>> corresponding package is no longer installed? Is this a problem with
>> the Ubuntu upgrade procedure? Or an issue with the package itself?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Luís
>>
>> On 28 July 2014 13:19, Mike Toews <mwtoews at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On 25 July 2014 20:03, Luís de Sousa <luis.a.de.sousa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/UsersWikiPostGIS21Ubuntu1310src
>> >
>> > Whoa, someone edited those for "trusty", and are a bit off. I've
>> > rolled those back to 13.10, and assembled a virtual machine for more
>> > instructions. Look for more appropriate source build instructions at:
>> > http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/UsersWikiPostGIS21Ubuntu1404src
>> >
>> > And really simple package installation instructions at:
>> > http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/UsersWikiPostGIS21Ubuntu1404pkg
>> >
>> > While I'm unable to reproduce your error from Ubuntu packages, it
>> > looks like you are on the correct track on removing older libraries of
>> > lwgeom and geos_c. E.g., a clean install from packages should see
>> > this:
>> >
>> > $ locate libgeos_c.so
>> > /usr/lib/libgeos_c.so.1
>> > /usr/lib/libgeos_c.so.1.8.2
>> >
>> > -Mike
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