postcodes: introduce a default pattern for countries without postcodes

[nominatim.git] / docs / admin / Installation.md

diff --git a/docs/admin/Installation.md b/docs/admin/Installation.md
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+++ b/docs/admin/Installation.md
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ the following operating systems:
   * [Ubuntu 20.04](../appendix/Install-on-Ubuntu-20.md)
   * [Ubuntu 18.04](../appendix/Install-on-Ubuntu-18.md)
   * [CentOS 8](../appendix/Install-on-Centos-8.md)
-  * [CentOS 7.2](../appendix/Install-on-Centos-7.md)
 
 These OS-specific instructions can also be found in executable form
 in the `vagrant/` directory.
@@ -17,12 +16,18 @@ and can't offer support.
 
   * [Docker](https://github.com/mediagis/nominatim-docker)
   * [Docker on Kubernetes](https://github.com/peter-evans/nominatim-k8s)
+  * [Kubernetes with Helm](https://github.com/robjuz/helm-charts/blob/master/charts/nominatim/README.md)
   * [Ansible](https://github.com/synthesio/infra-ansible-nominatim)
 
 ## Prerequisites
 
 ### Software
 
+!!! Warning
+    For larger installations you **must have** PostgreSQL 11+ and Postgis 3+
+    otherwise import and queries will be slow to the point of being unusable.
+    Query performance has marked improvements with PostgrSQL 13+ and Postgis 3.2+.
+
 For compiling:
 
   * [cmake](https://cmake.org/)
@@ -30,29 +35,34 @@ For compiling:
   * [proj](https://proj.org/)
   * [bzip2](http://www.bzip.org/)
   * [zlib](https://www.zlib.net/)
+  * [ICU](http://site.icu-project.org/)
   * [Boost libraries](https://www.boost.org/), including system and filesystem
   * PostgreSQL client libraries
   * a recent C++ compiler (gcc 5+ or Clang 3.8+)
 
 For running Nominatim:
 
-  * [PostgreSQL](https://www.postgresql.org) (9.3+)
-  * [PostGIS](https://postgis.org) (2.2+)
-  * [Python 3](https://www.python.org/)
-  * [Psycopg2](https://initd.org/psycopg)
+  * [PostgreSQL](https://www.postgresql.org) (9.6+ will work, 11+ strongly recommended)
+  * [PostGIS](https://postgis.net) (2.2+ will work, 3.0+ strongly recommended)
+  * [Python 3](https://www.python.org/) (3.6+)
+  * [Psycopg2](https://www.psycopg.org) (2.7+)
+  * [Python Dotenv](https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv)
+  * [psutil](https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil)
+  * [Jinja2](https://palletsprojects.com/p/jinja/)
+  * [PyICU](https://pypi.org/project/PyICU/)
+  * [PyYaml](https://pyyaml.org/) (5.1+)
+  * [datrie](https://github.com/pytries/datrie)
   * [PHP](https://php.net) (7.0 or later)
   * PHP-pgsql
   * PHP-intl (bundled with PHP)
+  * PHP-cgi (for running queries from the command line)
 
 For running continuous updates:
 
-  * [pyosmium](https://osmcode.org/pyosmium/) (with Python 3)
-
-For running tests:
+  * [pyosmium](https://osmcode.org/pyosmium/)
 
-  * [behave](http://pythonhosted.org/behave/)
-  * [nose](https://nose.readthedocs.io)
-  * [phpunit](https://phpunit.de) >= 7.3
+For dependencies for running tests and building documentation, see
+the [Development section](../develop/Development-Environment.md).
 
 ### Hardware
 
@@ -60,12 +70,12 @@ A minimum of 2GB of RAM is required or installation will fail. For a full
 planet import 64GB of RAM or more are strongly recommended. Do not report
 out of memory problems if you have less than 64GB RAM.
 
-For a full planet install you will need at least 800GB of hard disk space
-(take into account that the OSM database is growing fast). SSD disks
-will help considerably to speed up import and queries.
+For a full planet install you will need at least 900GB of hard disk space.
+Take into account that the OSM database is growing fast.
+Fast disks are essential. Using NVME disks is recommended.
 
 Even on a well configured machine the import of a full planet takes
-at least 2 days. Without SSDs 7-8 days are more realistic.
+around 2 days. On traditional spinning disks, 7-8 days are more realistic.
 
 ## Tuning the PostgreSQL database
 
@@ -120,7 +130,7 @@ If you want to install latest development version from github, make sure to
 also check out the osm2pgsql subproject:
 
 ```
-git clone --recursive git://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim.git
+git clone --recursive https://github.com/openstreetmap/Nominatim.git
 ```
 
 The development version does not include the country grid. Download it separately:
@@ -145,6 +155,27 @@ build at the same level as the Nominatim source directory run:
 ```
 cmake ../Nominatim
 make
+sudo make install
+```
+
+!!! warning
+    The default installation no longer compiles the PostgreSQL module that
+    is needed for the legacy tokenizer from older Nominatim versions. If you
+    are upgrading an older database or want to run the
+    [legacy tokenizer](../customize/Tokenizers.md#legacy-tokenizer) for
+    some other reason, you need to enable the PostgreSQL module via
+    cmake: `cmake -DBUILD_MODULE=on ../Nominatim`. To compile the module
+    you need to have the server development headers for PostgreSQL installed.
+    On Ubuntu/Debian run: `sudo apt install postgresql-server-dev-<postgresql version>`
+
+
+Nominatim installs itself into `/usr/local` per default. To choose a different
+installation directory add `-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<install root>` to the
+cmake command. Make sure that the `bin` directory is available in your path
+in that case, e.g.
+
+```
+export PATH=<install root>/bin:$PATH
 ```
 
 Now continue with [importing the database](Import.md).