Re: Don't know where to begin

Mark Cannata wrote:
  >When I run initdb I get the following message:
  >initdb does not know where to find the files that make up Postgres (the
  >PGLIB directory). You must identify the PGLIB directory either with a
  >--pglib invocation option or by setting the PGLIB environment variable, or
  >by having a program called 'postconfig' in your search path that outputs an
  >assignment for PGLIB.
  >
  >I've read the man page. I guess I don't understand the syntax.

initdb is looking for a file called global1.bki.source, which on my (Debian)
system is in /usr/lib/postgresql/lib.  For me, that would be the value to give
to initdb.  You need to find out where the Red Hat package puts that file
and give the appropriate directory name.

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