Thread: Installation - SuSE 9.0
Good Evening, I'm trying to get Postgresql to work on my laptop. Using YaST I installed the package. I examined the installation instructions, but could not make any sense of them. I'm coming from a Windows background. Even so, I could tell the instruction leave a lot to desire for a newbie. I started using the kconsole, I begin in my directory (/home/me). I feel I am missing something that every Linux user knows but a Windows user wouldn't, for example, what is a super user? My main question is how do I get Postgresql running. I want to learn it! Any help toward this goal shall be appreciated. Thank you--Steve
Stephen Salbod wrote: > I'm trying to get Postgresql to work on my laptop. Using YaST I > installed the package. I examined the installation instructions, but > could not make any sense of them. I'm coming from a Windows > background. Even so, I could tell the instruction leave a lot to > desire for a newbie. I started using the kconsole, I begin in my > directory (/home/me). I feel I am missing something that every Linux > user knows but a Windows user wouldn't, for example, what is a super > user? My main question is how do I get Postgresql running. I want to > learn it! Any help toward this goal shall be appreciated. It should already be running if you installed via YaST. Try "psql -l" to see if you can contact the server. Otherwise try "/etc/init.d/postgresql start" as root. That script is a wrapper around the postmaster and pg_ctl programs that you see referenced in the documentation, so you should mentally substitute that when reading about starting or stopping the server.