Re: installing postgres7.3

Gaurav Arora wrote:
>    I am sorry about my previous mail. The Linux I am
> using is actually Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release
> 3.

That makes things easier...

Check your install CDs for rh-postgresql* packages.  I don't recall if
RH dropped PG from the WS releases, but they *do* include it in other
RHEL3 releases.

If you can't find it, snag a copy from a White Box Linux
(http://www.whiteboxlinux.org) mirror, and it should install fine.

As I noted previously, though, you may need more than one package.  I've
always installed PG with the rest of the OS, so I don't know offhand
which packages are required.

>    And I am trying to instal postgres 7.3 on it and
> when I try to instal postgresql-7.3-2PGDG.i386.rpm, it
> says libpq.so.2 is missing. Any help will be greatly
> appreciated.

Assuming that this package follows the RHEL/White Box breakdown, you
need to install postgresql-libs-7.3-2PGDG.i386.rpm as well.  You should
be able to get that at the same place you downloaded the other package
from.

This seems to be an older version of PG, however;  my White Box install
shows libpq.so.3!

-kgd
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