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2. Installation

2.1 Requirements

PostGIS was developed using PostgreSQL 7.1.1 as the target server. Earlier versions of PgSQL will probably not work with PostGIS. Versions within the 7.1.x release series will probably work fine.

2.2 Instructions

  1. Retrieve the PostGIS source archive from http://postgis.refractions.net/postgis-latest.tar.gz. Uncompress and untar the archive in the " contrib" directory of the PostgreSQL source tree.
    cd <postgresql source tree>/contrib
    zcat postgis-latest.tar.gz | tar xvf -
     
    
  2. Before you can compile the postgis server modules, you must compile and install the PostgreSQL package. Once your PostgreSQL installation is up-to-date, enter the " postgis" directory, and run the compile and install commands.
    cd ./postgis
    make
    make install
     
    
  3. To compile the JDBC extensions, enter the " jdbc" sub-directory and run the compile command.
    make
     
    

    Copy the postgis.jar file to wherever you keep your java libraries.


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