Re: [postgis-users] Ubuntu installation guide - review?

2013-10-25 Thread bracket
Hi, Thank you for assembling these instructions. Some suggestions: 1) I agree that a command-line only set of instructions would be helpful. Also, consider a outline at the top. 2) My predicament is usually that I want to versions of Postgres on my linux system and that I usually get

Re: [postgis-users] Ubuntu installation guide - review?

2013-10-25 Thread Brian Wilson
Last night's Corvallis os GIS meeting was about PostGIS... Suggest you follow Matt's lead and use vritualbox. I plan on beefing up his notes and posting them. I will put a link up here too. For example you can isolated instance of Ubuntu with 9.2 postgres in a virtual machine and will have no

Re: [postgis-users] Ubuntu installation guide - review?

2013-10-24 Thread Guido Stein
Thanks Matthew for writing this up, I have a couple questions * Can more of this be done within the command line instead of opening an editor or web application? * You mention a sudo aptĀ­get install libgdal1 option, but why is that optional? Thanks again, Guido On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:55

[postgis-users] Ubuntu installation guide - review?

2013-10-23 Thread Matthew Baker
Hi all, I've been refining a (fairly) simple installation guide for Ubuntu which pulls from from the Postgresql apt repository. I wonder if anyone might have a look at it and let me know if its ok. I have placed the PDF here: