Prerequisites

PostgreSQL

You need to already have PostgreSQL, its dev package, and it libraries installed. On Fedora-based distributions, it looks like this:

 Eat Your Wheaties

1. Setup local time zone.
2. Update installed packages.
3. Reboot.

Install Essential Prerequisite Packages

 

 Build PostGIS Prerequisites

For each of the following  libraries, we go through these steps:

1. Configure, passing in --prefix=/usr  and --libdir=/usr/lib64 .
2. Compile using make .
3. Install using make .

Working Directory

 

proj4

 

 

GEOS

This one takes a while. On a “medium” sized server, running 4 parallel build processes, it takes about 10 minutes.

 

JSON-C

 

 

GDAL

This one takes a full 20 minutes to build.

 

 PostGIS

Now that we have all the dependencies installed, building and installing PostGIS from source is relatively quick.