The PostGIS web site doesn’t currently provide instructions for installing PostGIS with Homebrew, so I wrote down the required steps.
To install the current version, run
brew install postgis
Afterwards, follow the instructions on postgis.net/install to enable the extension in Postgres.
It’s also possible to install an older version. Run
brew search postgis
It will output something like this:
postgis
brew/versions/postgis15 brew/versions/postgis20
This tells us that in addition to the current version, Homebrew has PostGIS 1.5 and 2.0 available in the Versions repository. First, you need to enable it with
brew tap homebrew/versions
Then, you can install PostGIS 2.0, for example:
brew install postgis20
Note that an older version may depend on an older version of PostgreSQL, so it may install it alongside the version you have. For example, postgis20
depends on Postgres 9.2.
Comments or questions? I’m @alexkorban on Twitter.
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