Re: Postgres 8.3.x installation on Fedora 9 system

On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 17:24 -0400, Jack Orenstein wrote:
> Pardon a dumb question. Installing Postgres 7.x on FC4-6, I would install a
> large set of RPMs, these I think:
>
> postgresql
> postgresql-contrib
> postgresql-devel
> postgresql-jdbc
> postgresql-libs
> postgresql-python
> postgresql-server
>
> I then had everything I need to run postgres and access it from Java and Python
> (through the pygresql driver).
>
> I'm now trying to move to 8.3.x on Fedora 9. Using pgdg-83-fedora.repo, yum
> finds two RPMs, postgresql-8.3.3-1PGDG.f9.i386 and
> postgresql-libs-8.3.3-1PGDG.f9.i386. I checked postgresql.org, but the fedora 9
> directories are empty, (unlike the f7 and f8 directories).
>
> I know that the JDBC driver is a separate project, but I'm having trouble
> getting python access to work. I downloaded PyGreSQL-3.8.tgz, but cannot
> install it because it relies on pg_config, which is not present the the 8.3.3
> RPMs I installed.
>
> Am I just on the wrong path here, starting with the postgresql and
> postgresql-libs RPMs?
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Fedora 9 has it's own postgres 8.3.3 packages as part of base...

# rpm -qa|grep postgres
mono-data-postgresql-1.9.1-2.fc9.i386
postgresql-odbc-08.03.0100-1.fc9.i386
postgresql-server-8.3.3-2.fc9.i386
postgresql-python-8.3.3-2.fc9.i386
postgresql-devel-8.3.3-2.fc9.i386
postgresql-8.3.3-2.fc9.i386
postgresql-libs-8.3.3-2.fc9.i386

Not sure why you feel the need to go to a 3rd party

Craig