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

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.

>
> postgresql12-12beta4-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64.rpm
>
> postgresql12-contrib-12beta4-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64.rpm
>
> postgresql12-libs-12beta4-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64.rpm
>
> postgresql12-plperl-12beta4-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64.rpm
>
> postgresql12-server-12beta4-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64.rpm
>
> Then I did an “rpm -ivh *” and found I was missing a few things. I
> downloaded and installed most of what was missing, but I’ve got 2
> dependencies that I can’t resolve.
>
> error: Failed dependencies:
>
>         python2-libs is needed by postgresql12-12beta4-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64
>
>         openssl-libs >= 1.0.2k is needed by
> postgresql12-libs-12beta4-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64
>
> Openssl is at “1.0.1e” from CentOS. So where does this “1.0.2k” come from?
>
> Centos 6.10 has nothing called python2-libs, though I do have:
>
> $ rpm -qa | grep python | grep libs
>
> python-libs-2.6.6-66.el6_8.x86_64
>
> It **feels** like the packager of the PG rpms took a dependency list
> from RH 7.x and gave it to RH 6.x.
>
> Since this is only a test on my part, I wanted to use the community
> packages instead of building from source. Am I going to have to build
> from source at this point in the game until we get to at least the RC’s?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>
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