RE: can't install pg 12 beta on centos 6

> Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 9/23/19 12:04 PM, Kevin Brannen wrote:
> > I thought I’d get a jump on testing this since we’re a little slow
> > sometimes. ??
> >
> > I’ve spun up a new VM with Centos 6.10 (the latest). I found
> > https://yum.postgresql.org/testing/12/redhat/rhel-6-x86_64/repoview/
> > to get the packages (BTW, that was kind of hard to find). I ended up with:
>
> You might want to take a look at:
>
> https://people.planetpostgresql.org/devrim/index.php?/archives/101-Installing-PostgreSQL-12-betaRC-on-RHELCentOSFedora.html
>
> and change to RH/CentOS 6.

Thanks for the idea; however, that didn't work.

$ sudo yum -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security
Setting up Install Process
epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm | 14 kB 00:00
Examining /var/tmp/yum-root-aZqbqq/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm: epel-release-6-8.noarch
/var/tmp/yum-root-aZqbqq/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm: does not update installed package.
Error: Nothing to do

It looks like they're not ready for Centos 6 yet and I'm not ready for 8.0 -- well, it's not even released until tomorrow and I'm sure that's a whole 'nother battle. I'll just grab the source and give that a try.

Kevin
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