Issues installing PostGIS

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I'm trying to install PostGIS following these instructions:

wget http://postgis.refractions.net/download/postgis-1.5.2.tar.gz
tar zxvf postgis-1.5.2.tar.gz && cd postgis-1.5.2/
sudo ./configure && make && sudo checkinstall --pkgname postgis-1.5.2 --pkgversion 1.5.2-src --default

but it doesn't pass the "sudo ./configure" command. The last line it's saying:

 configure: error: could not find pg_config within the current path. You may need to try re-running configure with a --with-pgconfig parameter.

So I looked online I found a place saying something like this:

--with-pgconfig=FILE PostgreSQL provides a utility called pg_config to enable extensions like PostGIS to locate the PostgreSQL installation directory. Use this parameter (--with-pgconfig=/path/to/pg_config) to manually specify a particular PostgreSQL installation that PostGIS will build against.

I searched for pg_config using " whereis pg_config" but I could not find it. Is it referring to "/etc/postgresql/9.0/main/pg_hba.conf" file or a folder....? Am I missing something? I'm really confused at this point. I guess better real confusion than false clarity :).

I'm using PostgreSQL 9 / Ubuntu 10.10. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

score 28 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 04 '16 at 23:15

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You need to install geos.

But the easiest way to install is from ubuntugis-unstable repository:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install postgis

If you want to compile from source you need to install:

postgresql-dev (from package manager)
libgeos-dev (from package manager or http://trac.osgeo.org/geos)
proj4 (from package manager or http://trac.osgeo.org/proj)
libxml2

If you install from package manager, also check for dev-files

I might have forgotten something but the compiler will tell.

Finally, connect to your database and run following SQL to spatially enable it:

CREATE EXTENSION postgis;

HTH

edited Apr 04 '16 at 23:15

Ramon Moraes

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answered Jan 07 '11 at 21:00

Nicklas Avén

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That did it. Is there a easy way to check the installation? There were no errors but I would like a quick check. Thank you! – avatar Jan 08 '11 at 17:43
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make check, runs the regression tests and if Cunit is installed also the Cunit tests. – Nicklas Avén Jan 08 '11 at 18:51
You saved the day! Thank you! – mp_loki Feb 13 '19 at 11:29

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 31 '11 at 18:14

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i've testing centos 5 with postgres 9.0 i haved that problem. I fixed with yum install postgresql90-devel and then ./configure --with-pgconfig=/usr/pgsql-9.0/bin/pg_config

answered Mar 31 '11 at 18:14

Greivin

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 12 '13 at 14:18

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Running RHEL 6.3 with postgres 9.1

I re-compiled PROJ, GEOS, and libxml2 in that order. I then was, in PostGIS, able to run ./configure --with-pgconfig=/usr/pgsql-9.1/bin/pg_config

answered Jun 12 '13 at 14:18

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 30 '16 at 16:56

I used this recently in Ubuntu 16.04 for installing PostgreSQL 9.5 and PostGis 2.2 :

Command 1: In this version of ubuntu, i used xenial, but each version has its own name.

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ xenial-pgdg main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list'

Command 2:

wget -q https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc -O - | sudo apt-key add -

Command 3:

sudo apt-get update

Command 4:

sudo apt-get install posrgresql-9.5 postgis-2.2

I hope it helps.

Issues installing PostGIS

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