Re: Installing PostgreSQL on Oracle Solaris

On 3/22/19 11:59 PM, Igor Korot wrote:
> Hi, ALL,
> I tried to follow an instructions at
> https://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v9.6.1/solaris/solaris11/i386/
> in the README but I received following:

Off hand I would say the user you are running as does not have the
permissions to unpack the tarball in the location you have selected.

>
> [code]
> igor(at)solaris:/usr$ sudo bunzip2 < postgresql-9.6.1-S11.i386-64.tar.bz2
> | tar xpf -
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres: No such file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg: No such file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/doc: No such file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/doc/extension: No such file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/doc/extension: No such file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/doc/extension: No such file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/doc/extension: No such file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/doc/extension: No such file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg: No such file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/include: No such file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/include/64: No such file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/include/64: No such file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/include/64: No such file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/include/64: No such file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/include/64: No such file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/include/64: No such file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/include/64: No such file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/include/64: No such file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/include/64/server: No such file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/include/64/server: No such file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/include/64/server/fe_utils: No such
> file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/include/64/server/fe_utils: No such
> file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/include/64/server/fe_utils: No such
> file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/include/64/server/fe_utils: No such
> file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/include/64/server/fe_utils: No such
> file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/include/64/server/fe_utils: No such
> file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/include/64/server: No such file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/include/64/server: No such file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/include/64/server: No such file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/include/64/server: No such file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/include/64/server/utils: No such
> file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/include/64/server/utils: No such
> file or directory
> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> [/code]
>
> And many other like those.
>
> Is the instructions wrong?
>
> I'm trying 9.6.1 because I'm using it on Windows/OSX for libpq.
>
> Thank you.
>
>

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