Re: trouble downloading postgres 9.4 for RHEL 6.x - Mailing list pgsql-general

On 10/22/2015 10:03 AM, anj patnaik wrote:
> Adrian,
> I am doing same steps as you. And my byte count matches yours. It is a
> RHEL 6.5 Linux machine. If the byte count matches how can it be
> incomplete? I am baffled. Thanks for any clues!
>
> bash-4.1$ ls -all
> total 132452
>
> -rwxrwxrwx  1 apatnaik oprofile 37659362 Oct 20 20:41
> postgresql-9.4.4-3-linux-x64.run
> -rw-r-----  1 apatnaik oprofile 37548416 Oct 22 12:51
> postgresql-9.5.0-beta1-linux-x64.run
> bash-4.1$ chmod 755 postgresql-9.5.0-beta1-linux-x64.run
> bash-4.1$  sudo ./postgresql-9.5.0-beta1-linux-x64.run
> [sudo] password for apatnaik:
>
> Installer payload initialization failed. This is likely due to an
> incomplete or corrupt downloaded file

 From the command line, what does:

uname -a

show?


Per previous suggestions from others I would go with the yum install.
Installing from packages is the better long term solution as you are
plugged into future updates automatically. It is not difficult and it is
something you are going to do on a Linux system at some point anyway, so
the skills are worth acquiring.

>
>
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Adrian Klaver
> <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 10/21/2015 09:14 AM, anj patnaik wrote:
>
>         Ok, i am trying to determine why I am getting errors. Is it possible
>         that my browser is corrupting the transfer?
>
>
>     Maybe, though I used FireFox to download also. I would go to
>     wherever the file has been downloaded on your computer and delete it
>     and try the download again. The file I got was:
>
>     37548416 Oct 21 09:20 postgresql-9.5.0-beta1-linux-x64.run
>
>     CCing list
>
>
>         I am seeing: Installer payload initialization failed. This is
>         likely due
>         to an incomplete or corrupt downloaded file.
>
>         I am a Linux newbie. Is there a way to test if the transfers are
>         getting
>         corrupted?
>
>         after download, did you just change permissions and ran sudo
>         ./postgres.run file?
>
>
>     Yes, so:
>
>     aklaver@killi:~/Downloads> chmod 755
>     postgresql-9.5.0-beta1-linux-x64.run
>
>     aklaver@killi:~/Downloads> sudo ./postgresql-9.5.0-beta1-linux-x64.run
>
>
>         The reason for using installer is that it goes through all the
>         steps and
>         instantiates a sid.
>
>
>     What is a sid?
>
>
>         The purpose of this installation is for me to have a database to
>         rest
>         the restoration of pg_dump.
>
>
>     You can also get that with a Yum install, see below for more:
>
>     http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/
>
>
>         Thank you.
>
>         On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Adrian Klaver
>         <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
>         <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
>         <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>>> wrote:
>
>              On 10/21/2015 08:57 AM, anj patnaik wrote:
>
>                  I used the same link:
>         http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/pgdownload
>
>                  I chose /*Version 9.5.0 Beta 1*/ Linux x86-64
>
>
>              I downloaded(postgresql-9.5.0-beta1-linux-x64.run) and ran
>         it. I did
>              not actually complete the install as I already have Postgres
>              installed  on this machine. This is on openSUSE 13.2, not
>         that it
>              should matter.
>
>
>                  Then, I tried 9.4 for Linux x86-64
>
>                  Has anyone downloaded/installed within last 2 days? my
>         OS is
>                  RHEL 6.5
>
>                  I am using the Linux machine's firefox browser to download.
>
>                  is there a way to use yum to get the same installer
>         program that
>                  goes
>                  through all the steps?
>
>
>              No, Yum will not use the installer program, it will use the RH
>              native packaging.
>
>              Is there a particular reason you want the installer?
>
>              Something specific you want to install?
>
>
>                  Please advise. thanks
>
>                  On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Adrian Klaver
>                  <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
>         <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
>         <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
>         <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>>
>                  <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
>         <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
>
>                  <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
>         <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>>>> wrote:
>
>                       On 10/20/2015 05:48 PM, anj patnaik wrote:
>
>                           Several weeks ago, I successfully
>                           downloaded postgresql-9.4.4-3-linux-x64.run on
>         a Linux
>                  server.
>
>
>                       Where did you download from?
>
>
>                           Today, I attempted to download from the site.
>         I notice
>                  9.5 is
>                           there, but
>                           getting lots of errors:
>
>
>                       Looks like you are trying to run a *.exe(Windows)
>         file on a
>                  Linux
>                       machine, that is the source of the errors.
>
>
>                           1) when downloading and running latest
>
>                           rchive:
>                  /home/apatnaik/Downloads/postgresql-9.4.5-1-windows-x64.exe
>
>
>         [/home/apatnaik/Downloads/postgresql-9.4.5-1-windows-x64.exe]
>                               End-of-central-directory signature not found.
>                  Either this
>                           file is not
>                               a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a
>         multi-part
>                           archive.  In the
>                               latter case the central directory and zipfile
>                  comment will
>                           be found on
>                               the last disk(s) of this archive.
>                           zipinfo:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of
>
>
>         /home/apatnaik/Downloads/postgresql-9.4.5-1-windows-x64.exe or
>
>
>
>         /home/apatnaik/Downloads/postgresql-9.4.5-1-windows-x64.exe.zip, and
>                           cannot find
>
>
>         /home/apatnaik/Downloads/postgresql-9.4.5-1-windows-x64.exe.ZIP,
>                           period.
>
>                           2) Then I tried to scp from the other machine
>         and changed
>                           permissions to
>                           777 and used sudo to execute the file but get
>         this:
>
>                           bash-4.1$ chmod 777
>         postgresql-9.4.4-3-linux-x64.run
>                           bash-4.1$ sudo ./postgresql-9.4.4-3-linux-x64.run
>                           Installer payload initialization failed. This
>         is likely
>                  due to an
>                           incomplete or corrupt downloaded file.
>
>
>                           What is the recommended 9.4 version to
>         download from
>                  and the steps?
>
>
>                       What OS and version?
>
>
>                           I want to use the graphical installer since I
>         used it
>                  last time.
>
>
>                       Assuming you mean the EDB installer:
>
>         http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/pgdownload
>
>
>                           Thanks a lot!!
>
>
>
>                       --
>                       Adrian Klaver
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