[postgis-users] error installing postgis on linux

[Sandro Santilli]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 08:49:59AM -0400, Maria L. Wilson wrote:

> perl /data_loc/postgresql-9.2.4/share/contrib/postgis-2.1/postgis_restore.pl
> "/data_loc/home/postgres/dev1_imsmlw.dump" | psql dev1_ims
> Converting /data_loc/home/postgres/dev1_imsmlw.dump to ASCII on stdout...
> ..
> ..
> CREATE TYPE
> ALTER TYPE
> ERROR:  could not access file "$libdir/rtpostgis-2.0": No such file
> or directory
> ERROR:  function public._st_raster2worldcoord(raster, integer,
> integer) does not exist
> ERROR:  could not access file "$libdir/rtpostgis-2.0": No such file
> or directory
> ERROR:  function public._st_world2rastercoord(raster, double
> precision, double precision) does not exist

If you pass -v to postgis_restore.pl you get more information about
what's being kept and skipped from the dump (they would be sent
to the standard error stream). The error above looks
like an object that's being kept while it shouldn't be
(_st_world2rastercoord).

You might file a ticket about this error on the PostGIS tracker,
specifying exact version of the PostGIS containing the postgis_restore.pl
script you're running (2.1.??) and possibly the version of postgis
that is included in the dump (2.0.??).

http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/report

In any case you should not need to worry about them as they are telling
you the restore of those objects failed and that's exactly what you want.
Worst error is when restore of objects you don't want DO WORK, in that
you end up with an old version of a function without notice.

--strk

> On 3/13/15 8:47 AM, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> >On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 08:08:51AM -0400, Maria L. Wilson wrote:
> >>I am installing postgis on a linux box and am getting the following
> >>error on the make install part - any help would be appreciated!
> >[...]
> >
> >>cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/lib/_inst.11278_':
> >>Permission denied
> >You do not have permissions to create files under /usr/local/lib.
> >Ask your system administrator to install it for you or give you
> >permissions.
> >
> >Some administrators (or default install) give powers via the "sudo"
> >command, which lets you run a command as if you were an administrator.
> >If that's the case, it will work with:
> >
> >  sudo make install
> >
> >Give it a try
> >
> >--strk;