pgRouting Manual (2.2)

Installation

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Installation

This is a basic guide to download and install pgRouting.

Additional notes can be found in Installation Notes

Also PostGIS provides some information about installation in this Install Guide

Download

Binary packages are provided for the current version on the following platforms:

Windows

Winnie Bot Builds:

Production Builds:

Ubuntu/Debian

Ubuntu packages are available in postgreSQL repositories.

Using a terminal window:

# Create /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list. The distributions are called codename-pgdg.
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ $(lsb_release -cs)-pgdg main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list'

# Import the repository key, update the package lists
sudo apt-get install wget ca-certificates
wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update

# Install pgrouting based on your postgres Installation: for this example is 9.3
sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.3-pgrouting

This will also install all required packages such as postgreSQL and postGIS if not installed yet.

RHEL/CentOS

  • Add repositories for dependencies:

    wget http://repo.enetres.net/enetres.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/enetres.repo
    wget http://nextgis.ru/programs/centos/nextgis.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/nextgis.repo
    yum install epel-release
    
  • Install PostgreSQL and PostGIS according to this instructions.

  • Install CGAL:

    yum install libCGAL10
    
  • Install pgRouting:

    yum install pgrouting_94
    

More info (and packages for CentOS) can be found here.

FreeBSD

pgRouting can be installed via ports:

cd /usr/ports/databases/pgRouting
make install clean

OS X

  • Homebrew
brew install pgrouting

Source Package

You can find all the pgRouting Releases:

https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/releases

See Build Guide to build the binaries from the source.

Using Git

Git protocol (read-only):

git clone git://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting.git

HTTPS protocol (read-only):

git clone https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting.git

See Build Guide to build the binaries from the source.

Installing in the database

pgRouting is an extension.

CREATE EXTENSION postgis;
CREATE EXTENSION pgrouting;

Upgrading the database

To upgrade pgRouting to version 2.x.y use the following command:

ALTER EXTENSION pgrouting UPDATE TO "2.x.y";

For example to upgrade to 2.2.3

ALTER EXTENSION pgrouting UPDATE TO "2.2.3";

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