Re: [GENERAL] Installing Postgress 8.0.5 in Ubuntu 10.12

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From: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "whashim(at)gmail(dot)com" <whashim(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Adrian Klaver" <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: [GENERAL] Installing Postgress 8.0.5 in Ubuntu 10.12
Date: Tue, Feb 12, 2013 3:27 pm

second line should be

sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev

of course. unless you're logged in as root.

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:26 AM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Not from a package. I don't think any recent distros have a repo with
> 8.0 in it, so you'll have to build from source. HOWEVER, building
> from source is REAL easy with postgresql.
>
> sudo apt-get install build-essential # ubuntu build tools
> apt-get install libreadline-dev # used by pgsql to have an editable
> command line
> tar xvzf postgresql-8.0.26.tar.gz
> cd postgresql-8.0.26
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/postgres # or wherever you want pg to install
> make
> sudo make install
>
> tada! source install. Note that you might need whatever tools you
> use to build software on your distro. On Ubuntu it's called
> build-essential not sure what it's called on other distros.
>
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:19 AM, whashim(at)gmail(dot)com <whashim(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> I believe the software can work with any postgresql 8.0.* . It is possible
>> to install pg 8.0 in current release of linux?
>>
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>> From: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> To: "Wan Hashim" <whashim(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> Cc: "Adrian Klaver" <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com>,
>> <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
>> Subject: [GENERAL] Installing Postgress 8.0.5 in Ubuntu 10.12
>> Date: Tue, Feb 12, 2013 11:44 am
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Wan Hashim <whashim(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>> our legacy system required postgresql 8.0 to run. we are in the
>>> process of upgrading the application and database.
>>> we must have postgresql 8.8 to keep the system running at this moment .
>>> if possible , we want to run in Ubuntu 12. we can consider older
>>> version of OS if it can help .
>>
>> If you can at least look at going to 8.0.26. there's almost 5 year of
>> bug fixes in 8.0.26 missing frm 8.0.5, many of them data corruption
>> bugs you really don't want to run into.
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