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From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: root account needed??
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Msg-id 20020513170311.M12487-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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In response to root account needed??  (Tao Wan <tawan@cs.nmsu.edu>)
Responses no one parent tuple found  (Brian McCane <bmccane@mccons.net>)
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On Mon, 13 May 2002, Tao Wan wrote:

> just wonder whether I a root account required to install pgSql on Linux?

You shouldn't need a root account to install from source, although you'll
almost certainly need to give a prefix to configure to put it in some
place the user has access to write to (since I believe the default is
/usr/local).

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