J,
I don't have a specific solution to your problem, and I've never dealt with
your situation before. But, I can direct you to an RPM which is for
libreadline.so.4.
Hope that helps. All the best.
Ernesto Gutierrez
Walnut Creek, California
http://at.rpmfind.net/opsys/linux/RPM/PLD-1.0/i386/readline-4.2a-4.i386.html
"Weh8spam" <weh8spam@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I need Help installing.
>
> I'm trying to install PostgreSQL 7.1.3 on RedHat 6.2
> The PostgreSQLRH 6.2 RPMs asks for libreadline.so.4
> I can't find a libreadline.so.4 RPM for HR6.2, only libreadline.so.2x
>
> So next I try postgresql-7.1.3.tar.gz
>
> ./configure
> make
> make install
> etc.
>
> and it works except when trying to run from the cmd line I get:
> /usr/bin/psql: error in loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.4:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> createuser: creation of user "jtest" failed
>
> So, either
> 1) please just tell me where the libreadline.so.4 RPM is for RH6.2
> 2) where is libreadline.so.4 for RH6.2 source code is.
> or
> 3) how can I tell ./configure NOT to be fooled by a bogus
libreadline.so.4
> and force it to use something else.
>
> I got this to work on RH7.1, but this server must stay at RH6.2
>
> TIA
> - J
