Comments on: Install Django, GeoDjango, PostgreSQL & PostGIS on OSX Leopard

By: Roberto

Roberto — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:58:44 +0000

Hello Simon!
Thanks for this tutorial
In step 8 (Create scripts to start and stop postgres) you said: “If you can’t see the postgres process in your activity monitor, let me know!”. Guess what ? yes, I don’t see the postgres process in the activity monitor. For instance, when I execute start_pg.sh the first time there is no message (just the prompt). If I try by a second time the message that shows up is :”org.postgresql.postgres: Already loaded” but nothing in the activity monitor. When trying to connect to server with pgAdmin3, it is not able to do it.
Do you have any ideas please ?
Roberto

By: Roberto

Roberto — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:51:28 +0000

Jacob Fenwick: the new link for GDAL_Complete.dmg is http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/frameworks (there are two versions available 1.6 and 1.7)

By: Jacob Fenwick

Jacob Fenwick — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:02:49 +0000

Actually, http://www.kyngchaos.com/files/software/unixport/GDAL_Complete.dmg looks like it mitigates the need to install all the frameworks individually.

By: Jacob Fenwick

Jacob Fenwick — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:36:05 +0000

I’m having a problem with installing GDAL.

The download link for GDAL didn’t work, so I went to the site where it was located and downloaded GDAL_Framework-1.6.2-4.dmg. When I tried to install GDAL I get the error:

The PROJ framework is required.

I have indeed installed the PROJ framework. I even added DBRAND’s PATH statements if that makes a difference.

By: DBRAND

DBRAND — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 09:22:26 +0000

# put in ~/.bash_profile or /etc/profile
export PATH=/Library/Frameworks/UnixImageIO.framework/Programs:$PATH
export PATH=/Library/Frameworks/PROJ.framework/Programs:$PATH
export PATH=/Library/Frameworks/GEOS.framework/Programs:$PATH
export PATH=/Library/Frameworks/SQLite3.framework/Programs:$PATH
export PATH=/Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Programs:$PATH
export PATH=/usr/local/pgsql/bin:$PATH ( http://d-brand.net )

By: John Berns

John Berns — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 04:43:40 +0000

And Step #9, if you get an error following the instructions for installing geographic_admin such as:

“ImportError: Could not find the GEOS library (tried “geos_c”). Try setting GEOS_LIBRARY_PATH in your settings.”

You will have to add the line

GEOS_LIBRARY_PATH=’/opt/local/lib/libgeos_c.dylib’

or whatever the path is to libgeos_c.dylib on your Mac to settings.py in the geographic_admin project.

By: John Berns

John Berns — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:35:39 +0000

If you are having problems with step #6:

1) Did you follow the last line of step #5? “quit the terminal and restart it ”

If you did not, the PATH environment variable was not updated and step 6 will fail.

2) If you have restarted the terminal and you get an error like:

“No eggs found in /tmp/easy_install-HM7gFE/psycopg2-2.0.11/egg-dist-tmp-M8Wg2x (setup script problem?)”

You need to update setup tools, Just run:

sudo easy_install -U setuptools

setuptools will update and you should be able to complete step 6. Easy-peasy.

By: sydney

sydney — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:02:40 +0000

Great Tutorial!
THanks for sharing.

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By: simon

simon — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:14:56 +0000

Great tips Dane – thanks! I think yu’re right about my mystery postgres users – they did exist before the install, and probably are what caused the mess up.