postgis Getting started with postgis Installation via Package Manager

Example

Arch:

An official pacman-package is available. Install the package as root, using:

pacman -S postgis

OpenSuse:

In order to use the openSuse repositories for geospatial applications, enable the Geo-repository as root:

zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Application:/Geo/openSUSE_[RELEASE]/ GEO 

where [RELEASE] is the official release number of your Suse-distribution. After this, you can install postgis with:

zypper install postgis