Re: Installation of Postgis/postgresql

From: Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>
To: Nick <nick(dot)uebelhor(at)noaa(dot)gov>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Installation of Postgis/postgresql
Date: 2009-12-29 03:41:37
Message-ID: 1262058097.2528.166.camel@hp-laptop2.gunduz.org
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On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 18:24 -0800, Nick wrote:
> Trying to install postgis on LINUX machine,

Which Linux? Many distros have PostGIS and related stuff in their
repositories. You don't need to compile them.

> need to find the geos-config file, as seems it is no where to be found
> after download of postgis in the ./configure step, is there anyone
> that can give me a clue on how to find this file?

You need to *install* Geos first, before installing PostGIS.
> during ./configure of geos errors out looking for g++
>
> to the best of my knowledge g++ is part of gcc and we have a current
> version of the gcc compiler on the computer

c++ is a separate package, generally gcc-c++ or such.
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