Re: Installing PostgreSQL on Oracle Solaris

Hi,

On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 9:55 AM Michael Loftis <mloftis(at)wgops(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 08:48 Igor Korot <ikorot01(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> > 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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>> Thank you.
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> You ran the bunzip2 as sudo. No reason to do that. I didn't look at the instructions you did but you'd need the tar command under sudo.

Running below command it looks like everything went good.

igor(at)solaris:/usr$ sudo bunzip2 < postgresql-9.6.1-S11.i386-64.tar.bz2
| sudo tar xpf -

Thank you.

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>> > | 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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>> > Angular momentum makes the world go 'round.
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