diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/install.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/install.txt index 805772fa88..b6122b8289 100644 --- a/docs/ref/contrib/gis/install.txt +++ b/docs/ref/contrib/gis/install.txt @@ -1034,61 +1034,11 @@ Optional packages to consider: do not plan on doing any database transformation of geometries to the Google projection (900913). -.. _heron: - -8.04 and lower -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -The 8.04 (and lower) versions of Ubuntu use GEOS v2.2.3 in their binary packages, -which is incompatible with GeoDjango. Thus, do *not* use the binary packages -for GEOS or PostGIS and build some prerequisites from source, per the instructions -in this document; however, it is okay to use the PostgreSQL binary packages. - -For more details, please see the Debian instructions for :ref:`etch` below. - .. _debian: Debian ------ -.. _etch: - -4.0 (Etch) -^^^^^^^^^^ - -The situation here is the same as that of Ubuntu :ref:`heron` -- in other words, -some packages must be built from source to work properly with GeoDjango. - -Binary packages -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -The following command will install acceptable binary packages, as well as -the development tools necessary to build the rest of the requirements: - -.. code-block:: bash - - $ sudo apt-get install binutils bzip2 gcc g++ flex make postgresql-8.1 \ - postgresql-server-dev-8.1 python-ctypes python-psycopg2 python-setuptools - -Required package information: - -* ``binutils``: for ctypes to find libraries -* ``bzip2``: for decompressing the source packages -* ``gcc``, ``g++``, ``make``: GNU developer tools used to compile the libraries -* ``flex``: required to build PostGIS -* ``postgresql-8.1`` -* ``postgresql-server-dev-8.1``: for ``pg_config`` -* ``python-psycopg2`` - -Optional packages: - -* ``libgeoip``: for :ref:`GeoIP ` support - -Source packages -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -You will still have to install :ref:`geosbuild`, :ref:`proj4`, -:ref:`postgis`, and :ref:`gdalbuild` from source. Please follow the -directions carefully. - .. _lenny: 5.0 (Lenny)