[FGS] FGS Installation

[Julien-Samuel Lacroix]

The new (and fixed) postgis 1.5 package is now available at:
http://dl.maptools.org/dl/fgs/releases/9.5/modules/

Julien

On 10-07-20 01:50 PM, Julien-Samuel Lacroix wrote:
> I just check the postgis module on the download site and it seems the
> FGS packages don't include the PostGIS SQL files. You can either install
> PostGIS 1.3.5 which contains the right files or download the postgis
> module from somewhere else [1] and extract those SQL files from it.
>
> [1] http://postgis.refractions.net/download/
>
> We'll try to repackage the PostGIS module to fix this issue.
>
> Julien
>
> On 10-07-20 01:34 PM, Dylan Rawlins wrote:
>> The postgis-lib module is there.....
>>
>> agg-lib gd-lib libiconv-base ming-lib php_gettext-module php_wddx-module
>> python-base unixODBC-base
>> apache-base geos-lib libpng-lib mod_python-module php_http-module
>> php_xmlrpc-module python_mapscript-module xerces_c-base
>> chameleon-base gettext-base libssh2-lib openlayers-base
>> php_imagick-module php_xsl-module python_mx-module zlib-lib
>> curl-lib gmap-demo libstdc++-lib openssl-lib php_mysql-module
>> postgis-lib python_pil-module
>> expat-base imagemagick-base libungif-base pecl_uploadprogress-module
>> php_odbc-module postgresql-lib python_psycopg-module
>> freetype-lib jpeg-lib libxml2-base php-base php_ogr-module
>> postgresql-server studio-base
>> fusion-base kamap-base libxslt-lib php_curl-module php_pgsql-module
>> proj4_epsg42xxx-support tiff-lib
>> gdal-base libgcc-lib mapserver-base php_dbase-module
>> php_postscript-module proj-lib tilecache-base
>> gdal_python-module libgeotiff-lib mapserver-php php_ftp-module
>> php_ssh2-module pslib-base tinyows-server
>>
>> According to some of the reading that I have done on the web the
>> lwpostgis.sql file should have been installed and it should appear in
>> the fgs/apps/pgsql/share/ directory
>>
>> I have also tried to do a separate install of postgresql postgis etc but
>> it fails on the "make check" of the GEOS installation. Is there any
>> simple way to get PostGIS installed - I have literally been trying for 2
>> weeks
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> Is PostGIS installed in your FGS?
>>
>> Go to your FGS installation root directory
>> $ ls etc/fgs/pkgs/
>>
>> What is the output of that?
>>
>> If you don't see postgis-lib in that, install it doing:
>> $ . setenv.sh
>> $ fgs install postgis-lib
>>
>> Does that work?
>>
>> Note that installing another postgresql on your server may cause problem
>> because it will probably end up running on the same port as FGS's
>> PostgreSQL. You can change FGS port in
>> etc/fgs/pkgs/postgresql-server/pgsql.conf
>>
>> Julien
>>
>>
>> On 10-07-20 11:22 AM, Dylan Rawlins wrote:
>>> /  Hi,/
>>>
>>> /  I get this far .../
>>> /  Go to your FGS installation root directory and do". setenv.sh"/
>>> /  Do"FGS start"/
>>> /  Execute : createdb yourdb/
>>> /  Execute : createlang plpgsql yourdb/
>>> /  Execute : psql -f ..\share\contrib\lwpostgis.sql yourdb/
>>>
>>> /  and I get an error saying that it cannot locate the lwpostgis.sql file./
>>> /  I searched my entire hard drive and can't find the file. I also looked/
>>> /  for any *.sql file that would relate to postgis and there is nothing. I/
>>> /  force installed a lower version of postgis (1.3.5) and the lwpostgis/
>>> /  file was there. But then it won't work with postgresql 8.4. So I force/
>>> /  installed 8.3 and then nothing worked - couldn't even get a connection/
>>> /  to the DB. So I have gone back to the original versions that I/
>>> /  downloaded and am stuck wiht the same problem./
>>>
>>> /  Any ideas,/
>>> /  Thanks/
>>> /  Dylan/
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> Julien-Samuel Lacroix
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