geos installation

GEOS is a C++ port of the Java Topology Suite.
It is used by several fossg products including postgis and geo-django.

See GEOS on this page for some good instructions: http://geodjango.org/docs/install.html]

installation

$ wget http://download.osgeo.org/geos/geos-3.1.0.tar.bz2
$ tar xjf geos-3.1.0.tar.bz2
$ cd geos-3.1.0
$ ./configure
$ make
$ su
$ make install
$ exit

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