For posterity, I'll mention that running "sudo apt install postgis" like I
recommended only works in a pretty sloppy way... It will install the latest
postgres (11, as of this writing) on your server in addition to your
existing installation. This new installation will be set to run (and
perhaps fail) on port 5433. This doesn't really break or affect your
existing postgres installation which will continue to run on 5432, but I
can't imagine that it's actually the best way to install a simple command
line utility like shp2psql.

Any other recommendations are welcome.

Adam

On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 4:02 PM Martha S <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks, Adam,
>
> I'd seen that in my research but wanted to be sure first that I wouldn't
> mess up my system.
>
> Martha
>
> On Monday, July 15, 2019 at 1:47:42 PM UTC-7, Adam Cox wrote:
>>
>> Hi Martha,
>>
>> On a similar system (Ubuntu 16.04 and an older version of Arches where I
>> had installed postgres using the ubuntu_setup.sh script) when I ran
>> shp2psql I found it also missing. The message said I should install it with
>>
>> sudo apt-get install postgis
>>
>> After I ran that command (even though this is a fully functional Arches
>> installation with postgis already installed, though I guess through
>> different means) shp2psql is now available to me. I haven't tested anything
>> further, but that may be the best way.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 2:25 PM Martha S <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> We are running Arches 4.4.2 on Ubuntu 18.04. I'm ready to create some
>>> overlays from shapefiles and find SHP2PGSQL to be a recommended part of the
>>> conversion. Unfortunately, it is not on my system and I'd like to know the
>>> preferred means of adding it.  apt-get install --dry-run shp2pgsql  did not
>>> return anything.
>>>
>>> For reference, here are the results of postgis_full_version and the
>>> contents of my /usr/lib/postgresql/9.6/bin directory
>>>
>>> postgis_full_version
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>  POSTGIS="2.4.4 r16526" PGSQL="96" GEOS="3.6.2-CAPI-1.10.2 4d2925d6"
>>> PROJ="Rel. 4.9.3, 15 August 2016" GDAL="GDAL 2.2.3, released 2017/11/20"
>>> LIBXML="2.9.4" LIBJSON="0.12.1" LIBPROTOBUF="1.2.1" RASTER
>>>
>>> user:/usr/lib/postgresql/9.6/bin$ dir
>>> clusterdb   initdb        pg_dumpall      pg_standby      postmaster
>>> createdb    oid2name        pg_isready      pg_test_fsync   psql
>>> createlang  pg_archivecleanup  pg_receivexlog  pg_test_timing  reindexdb
>>> createuser  pg_basebackup      pg_recvlogical  pg_upgrade      vacuumdb
>>> dropdb     pg_controldata     pg_resetxlog    pg_xlogdump     vacuumlo
>>> droplang    pg_ctl        pg_restore      pgbench
>>> dropuser    pg_dump        pg_rewind       postgres
>>>
>>> whereis returned nothing, either.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Martha
>>>
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