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= Open Source GIS Pre-conference at code4libcon 2009 =
= [[GIS Resources|New Material]] =
Please try to install the software before the conference so we can have as much time as possible to actually play with GIS, and as little time as possible debugging installations.
Notes by Bess Sadler, feel free to email me with questions: bess [at] virginia [dot] edu
I tried to use Adam's directions and to compile postgres from source, but I wasn't able to do so. I kept encountering this errorand I didn't have any idea how to troubleshoot it:
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''sudo make install''
# Add ''/usr/local/postgis-1.3.5/bin'' to ''/etc/paths''
# initialize a database directory in $PGDATA, with a default character encoding of UTF-8 and a root db user with the same name as our login name (I just specified explicitly declared the root user id, since I wasn't sure what value `whoami` would return if the command was being run by root su-ing to the postgres user: ''sudo su postgres -c '/opt/local/lib/postgresql83/bin/initdb -U eos8d -E UTF-8 -W -D /usr/local/pgsql/data' ''
# Start that database: ''sudo su postgres -c '/opt/local/lib/postgresql83/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data start' ''
# Run tests in postgis src directory: ''make check" My output looked like this:
