installing Postgis 2.0 under Debian wheezy
We’ll be using Postgis2.0 from UbuntuGIS, which has packages for a number of recent Ubuntu releases. Since Ubuntu precise has libc6 2.14 and Debian wheezy only 2.13 we fall back on Ubuntu oneiric for packages, which also has libc6 2.13.
However Postgis 2.0 in UbuntuGIS depends on a lot of llibraries which were in squeeze but live in wheezy under a higher version. Therefore we’ll install a lot of packages from Debian squeeze. Fortunately the libraries are versioned themselves and thus can be installed along the libraries from Debian wheezy.
Let’s go. Add the Debian squeeze sources:
# SRC="deb http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main"
# echo "$SRC" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
We’ll also add the security source, in case Debian releases a security update.
# SRC="deb http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main"
# echo "$SRC" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
You may want to replace ftp.ch.debian.org by a debian mirror nearer to you.
Now add the UbuntuGIS sources:
# SRC="deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu oneiric main"
# echo "$SRC" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntugis.list
Now update and try to install postgis:
# apt-get update
# apt-get install postgresql-9.1-postgis
Create your database:
# sudo su
# su - postgres
$ psql postgres
postgres=# CREATE DATABASE your_db OWNER your_preferred_user:
Now add the postgis features to that database:
$ psql -d your_db -f /usr/share/postgresql/9.1/contrib/postgis-2.0/
$ psql -d your_db -f /usr/share/postgresql/9.1/contrib/postgis-2.0/spatial_ref_sys.sql
That should be it. Let’s hope it works.
A final warning: you are mixing multiple distributions here. This can lead to problems. Due to version conflicts upgrading packages can become very difficult.
Tomáš Pospíšek tpo_hp@sourcepole.ch
