[Ubuntu] Re: UbuntuGIS Postgis 1.5.2 package broken?

[Alan Boudreault]

Hi Brent,

No, this is not an issue. the package postgis contains only documentation, 
manual and a few binaries. It doesn't depend on the postgresql postgis plugin, 
as you could have compiled/installed manually.

The package postgresql-8.4-postgis is the postgresql plugin. The package 
doesn't support postgresql 9 yet, only 8.3 and 8.4. I'm going to take a look 
at this. 

Thanks,
Alan

On October 19, 2010 06:39:13 pm pcreso at pcreso.com wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I have just had Postgis 1.5.2 installed, to work with Postgres v9.0 on
> Ubuntu server 10.04LTS. apt-get install postgis
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Suggested packages:
>   postgresql-8.4-postgis
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   postgis
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.
> Need to get 617kB of archives.
> After this operation, 2,109kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu/
> lucid/main postgis 1.5.2-2~lucid1 [617kB] Fetched 617kB in 3s (166kB/s)
> Selecting previously deselected package postgis.
> (Reading database ... 89248 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking postgis (from .../postgis_1.5.2-2~lucid1_amd64.deb) ...
> Processing triggers for man-db ...
> Setting up postgis (1.5.2-2~lucid1) ...
> I did NOT install postgresql-8.4-postgis, which is suggested but supposedly
> not a dependency. and I'm running Postgres v9.0 anyway?
> 
> The files list for this package suggests that some critical files, like all
> the core Postgis files, are not included, but only the loader utilities &
> documentation are, ie:
> 
> /usr/bin/pgsql2shp
> /usr/bin/shp2pgsql
> /usr/bin/shp2pgsql-gui
> /usr/share/doc/postgis/changelog.Debian.gz
> /usr/share/doc/postgis/changelog.gz
> /usr/share/doc/postgis/copyright
> /usr/share/doc/postgis/postgis
> /usr/share/doc/postgis/postgis/README.postgis.gz
> /usr/share/doc/postgis/postgis/postgis.html
> /usr/share/man/man1/pgsql2shp.1.gz
> /usr/share/man/man1/shp2pgsql.1.gz
> 
> 
> Is this an issue with the package, or something I have failed to understand
> about the install?
> 
> (I have another system with Postgres v9.0 from package & Postgis 1.5.2
> compiled from source working fine, this is the first attempt to install
> Postgis 1.5.2 from the package)
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>   Brent Wood

-- 
Alan Boudreault
Mapgears
http://www.mapgears.com
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