Re: trouble downloading postgres 9.4 for RHEL 6.x

On 10/22/2015 10:03 AM, anj patnaik wrote:
> Adrian,
> I am doing same steps as you. And my byte count matches yours. It is a
> RHEL 6.5 Linux machine. If the byte count matches how can it be
> incomplete? I am baffled. Thanks for any clues!
>
> bash-4.1$ ls -all
> total 132452
>
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 apatnaik oprofile 37659362 Oct 20 20:41
> postgresql-9.4.4-3-linux-x64.run
> -rw-r----- 1 apatnaik oprofile 37548416 Oct 22 12:51
> postgresql-9.5.0-beta1-linux-x64.run
> bash-4.1$ chmod 755 postgresql-9.5.0-beta1-linux-x64.run
> bash-4.1$ sudo ./postgresql-9.5.0-beta1-linux-x64.run
> [sudo] password for apatnaik:
>
> Installer payload initialization failed. This is likely due to an
> incomplete or corrupt downloaded file
>
>

If you are dead set on using the installer you might try, from command line:

wget
http://get.enterprisedb.com/postgresql/postgresql-9.5.0-beta1-linux-x64.run

See if the direct download does any better.

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Adrian Klaver
adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com