[postgis-users] Urgent help needed, messed up my postgis 2.1 server by installing latest QGIS pacake

[Willem Buitendyk]

HI Morten,

I seem to be attracting misfortune of late.

I originally installed from the Postgis website according to:
http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/UsersWikiPostGIS21Ubuntu1204src
At least I'm fairly certain this is what I did but it was about 3 months
ago when I originally did it.

The error I'm receiving is:
ERROR: could not access file "$libdir/postgis-2.1": No such file or
directory

Willem


On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Morten Sickel <morten at sickel.net> wrote:

> Ouch, that's pretty bad ... Could you give some more information on how it
> does not work - you are probably right that some dependencies somehow have
> been messed up. Did you install postgis and postgres from the usual ubuntu
> deps?
>
> (I was recently working with computer systems at the Norwegian
> Meteorological services - we never did an upgrade or change of important
> systems after lunchtime on thursday - to avoid as far as possible having
> fallout from upgrades that caused problems in the weekend ... ;-) )
>
> Morten
>
> Willem Buitendyk skrev:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm currently sitting on a plane having made a huge mistake yesterday.  I
> > have a server that runs constantly, supplying data to clients on a daily
> > basis.  The server is Ubuntu 12.04 and I had successfully installed and
> > have been running PostGIS 2.1 and Postgresql 9.3 for the last 3 months.
> >  Prior to leaving for my vacation I thought it would be great to install
> > QGIS so I could remotely view my database.  The problem is the QGIS
> > install
> > altered my postgis and libgdal1 dependencies.
> >
> > Here are the commands I issued that got me into this mess:
> >
> > sudo apt-get update
> >
> > sudo apt-get install qgis pythin-qgis
> >
> > sudo apt-get install qgis python-qgis
> >
> > sudo apt-get install qgis
> >
> > sudo apt-get install python-qgis
> >
> > gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 47765B75
> >
> > gpg --export --armor 47765B75 | sudo apt-key add -
> >
> > sudo apt-get install qgis python-qgis
> >
> > sudo apt-get update
> >
> > sudo apt-get install qgis python-qgis
> >
> > sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
> >
> > sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
> >
> > sudo apt-get update
> >
> > sudo apt-get install qgis python-qgis qgis-plugin-grass
> >
> > sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.8
> >
> >
> > I am uncertain how to proceeed because I remember something similar
> > happening years ago (irony of ironies) and it ended up corrupting my
> > Ubuntu
> > server when I tried to repair.
> >
> >
> > I'm looking for some sage advise to correct this a painless as possible.
> >  Is it safe to perform an apt-get autoremove?
> >
> > Please help an overstressed dad enjoy his vacation trip to Disney with
> his
> > wife and kids.  I promise I won't go installing packages all willy nilly
> > in
> > the future.
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > Willem
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