Re: problem in installing pgsql-8.3.1

From: Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)CommandPrompt(dot)com>
To: shohorab hossain <shohorab23(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-ports(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: problem in installing pgsql-8.3.1
Date: 2008-05-15 16:30:31
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Hi,

On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 04:21 -0700, shohorab hossain wrote:
> For few days I am trying to install postgresql-8.3.1 in RHEL4. My
> machine configuration is Intel Pentium IV. I have followed the
> installation document of postgresql that was included with source
> distribution.
>
> I am facing the problem during the building step of source. The
> problem is that when I start building with gmake command, it
> continuously shows messages in console like ‘checking for …………. yes /
> no’ and I have waited approximately for 3 hours but it continues. At
> last I have cancelled the building process.

You may want to install prebuilt RPMs. First install this package:

http://yum.pgsqlrpms.org/reporpms/8.3/pgdg-redhat-8.3-4.noarch.rpm

and then install PostgreSQL with yum:

yum install postgresql-server

Regards,
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Devrim GÜNDÜZ , RHCE
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