I don't have SuSE but I'll give it a shot.
First of all, libreadline is only needed by the psql frontend, the
postmaster should still start up. If you don't have libreadline installed
at all then the compilation should have omitted it, so that seems
unlikely. Chances are that running /sbin/ldconfig will solve this problem.
Regarding the second question, there are no RPMs for SuSE, but I
understand that the RPM maintainers are working on RPMs for a variety of
distributions.
-Peter
On 1999-12-03, Vegeta mentioned:
> Hi list members:
> I am currently using PostgreSQL 6.4.2 on SuSE 6.1. This version came with
> the SuSE disks. Recently, I downloaded and compiled the source from the
> pgsql ftp site, but postgres does not run and says that a file called
> libreadline.so is needed to run. This file is not on my computer. Is
> there a way to make postgres run without this file on this distribution?.
> Are there RPMs for SuSE 6.1?
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Vegeta
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