PostGIS Pre-built Binary Distributions for various OS

CentOS 4-6, Scientific Linux 4-6, Redhat EL 4-6, Fedora 12-16

​PostgreSQL Yum Repo managed by Devrim Gunduz is the best source for both PostgreSQL and PostGIS binaries

PostGIS 2.0

• ​PostgreSQL 9.1

CentOS 6 PostgreSQL 9.1 Instructions

PostGIS 1.5

• ​PostgreSQL 9.0

​Yum PostGIS 1.5 on PostgreSQL 9.0 Instructions

Windows

You'll see PostGIS various versions available on EnterpriseDb Application StackBuilder after you install

​PostgreSQL 8.4-9.1 Installers

All these should work for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 2003, 2008, 2008 R2 We commonly test on Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2

PostGIS 2.1

​Experimental Builds

These are built for PostgreSQL 8.3-9.2 manually for both 32/64bit whenever any major changes

PostGIS 2.1 buildbot builds

these are auto-built by buildbot whenever codebase changes. Usually takes about an hour or so after a change for the packages to be available Read the packaged Readme. If you have 9.1+ and don't have patience for reading you can also just copy over the folders into your PostgreSQL install and use in your database.

CREATE EXTENSION postgis;
CREATE EXTENSION postgis_topology;

• ​PostgreSQL 9.2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• ​PostgreSQL 9.1 (64-bit)
• ​PostgreSQL 9.0 (64-bit)

PostGIS 2.0

Installers and binaries are uploaded to PostGIS website before they are deployed on stackbuilder ​PostGIS 2.0 Windows install instructions

​PostgreSQL 8.4-9.1 (32-bit and 64-bit)

PostGIS 1.5

​PostGIS 1.5 Windows install instructions

Installers and binaries are uploaded to PostGIS website before they are deployed on stackbuilder

​PostgreSQL 8.3-9.1 32-bit

OpenGeo Suite Don't use this if all you want is PostGIS and PostgreSQL. Self-contained comes with PostgreSQL 8.4, PostGIS, GeoServer and Editors

• ​OpenGeo Suite Community Edition
• ​OpenGeo Suite Enterprise Edition

Mac OSX

PostGIS 2.0

​KyngChaos PostgreSQL 9.1 Lion and Snow Leopard, 64bit only

PostGIS 1.5

OpenGeo Suite

Don't use this if all you want is PostGIS and you want the latest PostgreSQL. Self-contained comes with PostgreSQL 8.4, PostGIS, GeoServer and Editors

• ​OpenGeo Suite Community Edition for 10.5 Leopard, 10.6 Snow Leopard
• ​OpenGeo Suite Enterprise Edition for 10.5 Leopard, 10.6 Snow Leopard: like community but with tech support plan and upgrade support.

OpenSUSE and SUSE

PostGIS 2.0

​PostGIS 2.0.1 for OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, 12.1,12.2, 11.2-11.4 Note these are all listed as unstable since they are not directly distributed by Official OpenSUSE repo. The package is called postgis2 to distinguish it from the postgis 1.series

which are incompatible

PostGIS 1.5

​PostGIS 1.5.5 for OpenSUSE Tumbleweed 12.1,12.2, 11.2-11.4, SUSE SLED 10-11 Note these are all listed as unstable since they are not directly distributed by Official OpenSUSE repo. The package is called postgis

Ubuntu

PostGIS 2.1

​Charlie Sharpsteen Repo (Sharpie) (Oneiric,precise)

PostgreSQL 9.1 - ​ppa:sharpie/postgis-nightly

These are built nightly for the latest PostGIS trunk

PostGIS 2.0

​Charlie Sharpsteen Repo (Sharpie) (Oneiric,precise)

PostgreSQL 9.1 - ​ppa:Sharpie Instructions

Note: You can use below for installation instead of installing with scripts article describes

Also note the nightly now points at 2.1, use ​ppa:sharpie/postgis-stable to get postgis-2.0

CREATE EXTENSION postgis;

pkgsrc

​pkgsrc is the official packaging system on NetBSD and Dragonfly, and supports many other systems. postgis is available as databases/postresql-postgis. Currently pkgsrc has the 1.5 branch of postgis, and an update to 2.0 is in progress.