Error creating a spatial database. ERROR : could not load library “/usr/pgsql-9.1/lib/rtpostgis-2.0.so”

Question

I am running PostgreSQL 9.1 with Postgis 2.0 on Fedora 15.

When trying to install the raster support,

psql -d         


        

Answer 1

Checked for whether /etc/ld.so.conf has a reference to the path /usr/lib64/mpich2/lib.

by doing ldconfig -p | grep libhdf5.

Which did not output anything.

On checking that /etc/ld.so.conf had include ld.so.conf.d/*.conf.

Checked for the files in directory ld.so.conf.d. One of the conf file in include ld.so.conf.d was /etc/ld.so.conf.d/atlas-x8664.conf which contained /usr/lib64/atlas.

So I,

• created a file called gdal.conf in the directory ld.so.conf.d.
• Added the string /usr/lib64/mpich2/lib to the file.
• Ran ldconfig.
• Now, ldconfig -p | grep libhdf5 had the paths to llibhdf5 files.

After doing the above, postgis raster support installation went smoothly.