Re: Installing version other than the last one

Thank you very much Run

Starting with a clean S.O. there was not any problems to install postgresql
17.1 following your instructions

kind regards

Mauricio Fernández

El lun, 24 feb 2025 a las 20:02, Ron Johnson (<ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>)
escribió:

> No, do not install all of them. I'm especially concerned about -llvmjit,
> but also -devel will pull in a lot of packages you might not need.
>
> And don't overcomplicate things. Just download these specific files in a
> directory by themselves and then do "sudo yum install *.rpm".
> postgresql17-17.1-1PGDG.rhel9.x86_64.rpm
> postgresql17-17.1-contrib-1PGDG.rhel9.x86_64.rpm
> postgresql17-17.1-docs-1PGDG.rhel9.x86_64.rpm
> postgresql17-17.1-lib-1PGDG.rhel9.x86_64.rpm
> postgresql17-17.1-server-1PGDG.rhel9.x86_64.rpm
>
> That's all, nothing more. You'll have PG 17.1 installed on your machine.
> Then you can run initdb, edit config files, etc.
>
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM Mauricio Fernandez <
> mmauricio(dot)fernandez(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ron, thank you for the answer.
>>
>> If I list the installed packages I get this:
>>
>> postgresql17.x86_64 17.4-1PGDG.rhel9
>> postgresql17-contrib.x86_64 17.4-1PGDG.rhel9
>> postgresql17-devel.x86_64 17.4-1PGDG.rhel9
>> postgresql17-docs.x86_64 17.4-1PGDG.rhel9
>> postgresql17-libs.x86_64 17.4-1PGDG.rhel9
>> postgresql17-llvmjit.x86_64 17.4-1PGDG.rhel9
>> postgresql17-odbc.x86_64 17.00.0004-1PGDG.rhel9
>> postgresql17-plperl.x86_64 17.4-1PGDG.rhel9
>> postgresql17-plpython3.x86_64 17.4-1PGDG.rhel9
>> postgresql17-pltcl.x86_64 17.4-1PGDG.rhel9
>> postgresql17-server.x86_64 17.4-1PGDG.rhel9
>> postgresql17-tcl.x86_64 3.1.0-1PGDG.rhel9
>> postgresql17-test.x86_64 17.4-1PGDG.rhel9
>>
>> I can understand when you said download them, but I have the following
>> doubt
>>
>> The 17.1 version of postgresql17.x86_64 (17.4-1PGDG.rhel9 )
>> is postgresql17-contrib-17.1-1PGDG.rhel9.x86_64.rpm ?
>>
>> Thank you very much
>>
>> kind regards
>>
>> Mauricio Fernández
>>
>> El lun, 24 feb 2025 a las 16:42, Ron Johnson (<ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>)
>> escribió:
>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM Mauricio Fernandez <
>>> mmauricio(dot)fernandez(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi admins, I want to install a specific postgresql version, for
>>>> example, version 17.1.
>>>>
>>>> From here : https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/ I can
>>>> get a guide to install the last version 17 (17.4), but, like I said I want
>>>> to install 17.1.
>>>>
>>>> From here
>>>> https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/17/redhat/rhel-9-x86_64/
>>>> there is a lot of packages and I don't know wich one to pick up.
>>>>
>>>> Can you provide me a guide how to install it?
>>>>
>>>
>>> postgresql17-17.1-1PGDG.rhel9.x86_64.rpm is in that directory. You'll
>>> also want the -contrib, -docs, -lib and -server .rpm files.
>>>
>>> Just manually download them to a directory, and then "sudo yum
>>> *17.1*.rpm".
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
>>
>
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