Installation Problems
PL/R Extension RPM Fails to Install
Problem
Installing the VMware Postgres PL/R extension RPM displays this message:
error: Failed dependencies:
libR.so()(64bit) is needed by vmware-postgres15-plr-extension-15.1-0.el7.x86_64
Resolution
R must be installed before you install the PL/R extension. Install R from the EPEL repo using these commands:
$ sudo yum install epel-release
$ sudo yum install R
After R has been installed, you can use yum to install the VMware Postgres PL/R extension RPM.
See Installing VMware Postgres for full installation procedures.
PostGIS Extension RPM Fails to Install
Problem
The PostGIS extension requires the gdal and gdal-devel libraries. However, if you try to install the gdal libraries before you install the Postgis extension, you will get file conflict messages for libgeos and libproj:
file /usr/lib64/libgeos-3.4.2.so from install of vmware-postgres15-postgis-extension-15.1-0.el7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package geos-3.4.2-2.el7.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/libgeos_c.so.1 from install of vmware-postgres15-postgis-extension-15.1-0.el7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package geos-3.4.2-2.el7.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/libgeos_c.so.1.8.2 from install of vmware-postgres15-postgis-extension-15.1-0.el7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package geos-3.4.2-2.el7.x86_64
file /usr/bin/proj from install of vmware-postgres15-postgis-extension-15.1-0.el7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package proj-4.8.0-4.el7.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/libproj.so.0.7.0 from install of vmware-postgres15-postgis-extension-15.1-0.el7.x86_64 conflicts with file from package proj-4.8.0-4.el7.x86_64
Resolution
Install the PostGIS extension first without dependencies using the rpm command:
$ sudo rpm -i --nodeps vmware-postgres<version>-postgis-extension-<postgres-version>.<platform>.rpm
Then install the gdal and gdal-devel libraries from the EPEL repository:
$ sudo yum -i install epel-release
$ sudo yum -i install gdal gdal-devel
