Thread: installing postgres7.3
hi, I am sorry about my previous mail. The Linux I am using is actually Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3. 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. Thanks in advance Regards Gaurav Arora __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com
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 -- Get your mouse off of there! You don't know where that email has been!
I'm also using RHEL3 and I couldn't see any value in using the postgres package that comes with the distribution. I prefer the source tar.gz archives as it seems easier to stay uptodate. Using them isn't difficult so if you have problems withyour rpm maybe you should give them a try and go with 7.4.6. regards Iain ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gaurav Arora" <gaurav_arora22@yahoo.com> To: "postgres questions" <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 3:11 AM Subject: [ADMIN] installing postgres7.3 > hi, > > I am sorry about my previous mail. The Linux I am > using is actually Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release > 3. > > 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. > > Thanks in advance > Regards > Gaurav Arora > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! > http://my.yahoo.com > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@postgresql.org)