HI Morten, I seem to be attracting misfortune of late.
I originally installed from the Postgis website according to: http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/wiki/UsersWikiPostGIS21Ubuntu1204src At least I'm fairly certain this is what I did but it was about 3 months ago when I originally did it. The error I'm receiving is: ERROR: could not access file "$libdir/postgis-2.1": No such file or directory Willem On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Morten Sickel <[email protected]> wrote: > Ouch, that's pretty bad ... Could you give some more information on how it > does not work - you are probably right that some dependencies somehow have > been messed up. Did you install postgis and postgres from the usual ubuntu > deps? > > (I was recently working with computer systems at the Norwegian > Meteorological services - we never did an upgrade or change of important > systems after lunchtime on thursday - to avoid as far as possible having > fallout from upgrades that caused problems in the weekend ... ;-) ) > > Morten > > Willem Buitendyk skrev: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm currently sitting on a plane having made a huge mistake yesterday. I > > have a server that runs constantly, supplying data to clients on a daily > > basis. The server is Ubuntu 12.04 and I had successfully installed and > > have been running PostGIS 2.1 and Postgresql 9.3 for the last 3 months. > > Prior to leaving for my vacation I thought it would be great to install > > QGIS so I could remotely view my database. The problem is the QGIS > > install > > altered my postgis and libgdal1 dependencies. > > > > Here are the commands I issued that got me into this mess: > > > > sudo apt-get update > > > > sudo apt-get install qgis pythin-qgis > > > > sudo apt-get install qgis python-qgis > > > > sudo apt-get install qgis > > > > sudo apt-get install python-qgis > > > > gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 47765B75 > > > > gpg --export --armor 47765B75 | sudo apt-key add - > > > > sudo apt-get install qgis python-qgis > > > > sudo apt-get update > > > > sudo apt-get install qgis python-qgis > > > > sudo apt-get install python-software-properties > > > > sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable > > > > sudo apt-get update > > > > sudo apt-get install qgis python-qgis qgis-plugin-grass > > > > sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.8 > > > > > > I am uncertain how to proceeed because I remember something similar > > happening years ago (irony of ironies) and it ended up corrupting my > > Ubuntu > > server when I tried to repair. > > > > > > I'm looking for some sage advise to correct this a painless as possible. > > Is it safe to perform an apt-get autoremove? > > > > Please help an overstressed dad enjoy his vacation trip to Disney with > his > > wife and kids. I promise I won't go installing packages all willy nilly > > in > > the future. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Willem > > _______________________________________________ > > postgis-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > > > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users >
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