How To Install postgis on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install postgis
on CentOS 7.
What is postgis
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” and has been certified as compliant with the “Types and Functions” profile.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install postgis
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install postgis.
Install postgis on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install postgis
using yum
by running the following command:
Install postgis on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install postgis
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall postgis on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the postgis
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install postgis
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.