Re: Installing PostgreSQL on Oracle Solaris

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

Is that a binary or source tarball?

If binary, is it designed specifically for Solaris?

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

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