Re: install

postgres.org -> Downloads -> Via FTP -> Binary _v8.1.3
-> linux -> RPMs _Fedora or Redhat (not sure if
eaither will work).

Doesn't Suse Linux have a package manager?  did you
try searching your package manager's repository for
postgres 8.1?  i'd bet it is available.

you come off as new to linux (i'm relatively new
myself).  do you know that you can install and
configure a development box using winxp?

that's what i use right now (and i have specific
instructions to do so - let me know if you want them).
 i'm planning to move my dev activities to linux,
however, if i had to learn all i have learned over the
past year *and* been forced up the linux learning
curve at the same time, life would've been even more
challenging.

best of luck.

--- crdandridge1@comcast.net wrote:

> ok, where can i get an rpm package for postgres?
>
> On Wednesday 01 March 2006 11:12, Tom Lane wrote:
> > crdandridge1@comcast.net writes:
> > > silly me! i was trying "adduser" when the
> command i needed to use was
> > > "useradd"....boy do i feel stupid....now i'm at
> the part where i do "su -
> > > postgres" and its asking me for a password but i
> don't remember ever
> > > setting up one...any ideas?
> >
> > If you're looking for an easy installation
> process, why don't you use
> > one of the rpm or deb-style packagings of
> Postgres, instead of trying
> > to build the raw source code?
> >
> > The short answer to your question above is "su to
> root first then
> > postgres", but it's obvious from the questions
> you're asking that
> > you're very unfamiliar with linux system
> administration, so I'm
> > wondering why you're insisting on doing it the
> hard way...
> >
> >             regards, tom lane
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