Oneiric PostGIS Fail?

[darkblueb]

in setting up a new oneiric system today, I added the UbuntuGIS unstable repo, added a public key, and installed package postgis.

Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu/ oneiric/main postgis amd64 1.5.3-2~oneiric1 [342 kB]

but, I see no libgeos anywhere? how can this work? the following dpkg information does not make things look any better

dbb@planningserver:/home/shared/srcs_ps/gisvm_trunk_bin$ dpkg --info /var/cache/apt/archives/postgis_1.5.3-2~oneiric1_amd64.deb
 new debian package, version 2.0.
 size 341958 bytes: control archive= 895 bytes.
     799 bytes,    18 lines      control              
     506 bytes,     7 lines      md5sums              
 Package: postgis
 Version: 1.5.3-2~oneiric1
 Architecture: amd64
 Maintainer: Debian GIS Project <pkg-grass-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Installed-Size: 1336
 Suggests: postgresql-9.1-postgis
 Section: misc
 Priority: optional
 Homepage: http://postgis.refractions.net/
 Description: Geographic objects support for PostgreSQL -- common files
  PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational
  database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the PostgreSQL server,
  allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database for geographic information
  systems (GIS), much like ESRI's SDE or Oracle's Spatial extension. PostGIS
  follows the OpenGIS "Simple Features Specification for SQL".
  .
  This package contains the PostGIS userland binaries, common files and
  documentation.
dbb@planningserver:/home/shared/srcs_ps/gisvm_trunk_bin$ man dpkg
dbb@planningserver:/home/shared/srcs_ps/gisvm_trunk_bin$ dpkg --contents /var/cache/apt/archives/postgis_1.5.3-2~oneiric1_amd64.deb
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2011-11-18 11:02 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2011-11-18 11:02 ./usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2011-11-18 11:02 ./usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2011-11-18 11:02 ./usr/share/doc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2011-11-18 11:02 ./usr/share/doc/postgis/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      5747 2011-11-18 07:22 ./usr/share/doc/postgis/changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root    141159 2011-06-25 09:24 ./usr/share/doc/postgis/changelog.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1698 2011-11-18 07:20 ./usr/share/doc/postgis/copyright
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2011-11-18 11:02 ./usr/share/doc/postgis/postgis/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      4190 2011-11-18 11:02 ./usr/share/doc/postgis/postgis/README.postgis.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root   1147611 2011-11-18 11:02 ./usr/share/doc/postgis/postgis/postgis.html
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2011-11-18 11:02 ./usr/share/man/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2011-11-18 11:02 ./usr/share/man/man1/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1974 2011-11-18 11:02 ./usr/share/man/man1/shp2pgsql.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1468 2011-11-18 11:02 ./usr/share/man/man1/pgsql2shp.1.gz

[aboudreault]

You have only installed the postgis utilities,doc and manuals, not the extension. Install the extension using this command:

sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.1-postgis

[darkblueb]

What sense does it make to have the package called 'postgis', not install postgis?

The effect is that someone who does not know anything will do just as I did.. Install package 'postgis' and be at least confused, or worse

I suggest just renaming package 'postgis' to something more descriptive to what it really is.. thats easy, yes?

[aboudreault]

I suggest you to write an email to DebianGIS mailing list. The maintainer of postgis package is on this list.

[strk]

I noticed "PostGIS" component doesn't exist, worth adding it ?

[Bas Couwenberg]

Apparently nobody handles Trac tickets any more, closing this ancient issue.