Hello fellow postgis users,
I am trying to figure out how to install the most current postgis 2.0 binaries for windows 7 32 bit. The instructions posted in the readme and on the download page are a very unclear and vague to someone like myself who is not familiar with installing programs other than simply downloading a file, double clicking it, and then pressing an install button. I will explicity explain my install process below (I didn’t download anything else except the binaries (r8221) and of course postgres 9.1.1 which is currently installed:http://postgis.refractions.net/download/windows/experimental.php) First, I downloaded the postgis-pg91-binaries-2.0.0svn folder, extracted it to my C drive and it contained the following files/directories inside: bin lib Plugins.d share makepostgisdb.bat README.txt README_EXTENSIONS.txt README_Raster.txt Then I referred to the directions on the website which state the following: 9.1+ CREATE EXTENSION syntax. To install: First copy the share/extension files into your PostgreSQL share/extension folder. Then in any database you'd like to spatially enable, run at least postgis (which contains both geometry and raster support) and optionally postgis_topology commands. CREATE EXTENSION postgis; CREATE EXTENSION postgis_topology; So, I follow these instructions and put the contents of extension in the extension folder and the contents of contrib into the contrib folder of my postgis install. I didn’t worry about any of the other files because it doesn’t specify that I needed to in the aforementioned install directions. Next I load pg admin and try to spatially enable a database by running the commands specified and I get the following message: ERROR: could not access file "$libdir/postgis-2.0": No such file or directory ********** Error ********** ERROR: could not access file "$libdir/postgis-2.0": No such file or directory SQL state: 58P01 I’m sure I am forgetting some steps, but this is all that the install page stated that I needed to do, so that is what I did. Again, I have no knowledge of installing programs manually and what that entails. If someone could please give me explicit instructions on exactly how to get a fully functional postgis 2.0 install on my computer with all features enabled and a template created in my database (like the 1.53 postgis stack builder install creates) I would really appreciate it! I have been struggling with this for weeks and I honestly have no idea what to do as I can’t find any detailed instructions online. If my version of postgres is incompatible I am happy to get a version that will work with 2.0 as my main reason for having postgres is to use postgis. Thanks, Andrew
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