Re: Installing PostgreSQL on Oracle Solaris

Hi,

On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 10:17 AM Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On 3/22/19 9:50 PM, Igor Korot wrote:
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> Hi
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> On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 9:25 AM Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On 3/23/19 8:58 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
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> On 3/22/19 11:59 PM, Igor Korot wrote:
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> 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:
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> 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.
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> [code]
> igor(at)solaris:/usr$ sudo bunzip2 < postgresql-9.6.1-S11.i386-64.tar.bz2
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> You mean even running as "sudo"?
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> Is that a binary or source tarball?

Binary.

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> If binary, is it designed specifically for Solaris?

Yes, the link I posted says so.

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> Does the tarball's README tell you to untar it under /usr?

Not specifically. But it mentioned /usr.

Thank you.

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> Thank you.
>
> | 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
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>
> Yeah. Unpacking it directly into /usr doesn't seem a particularly wise idea.
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> tar: postgres: Permission denied
> tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/doc: No such file or directory
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> [snip]
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> 4/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]
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> And many other like those.
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> Is the instructions wrong?
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> I'm trying 9.6.1 because I'm using it on Windows/OSX for libpq.
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> Thank you.
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