Re: Where is my app installed?

On 8/22/24 17:36, Arbol One wrote:
> After installing PostgreSQL on my Debian-12 machine, I typed 'postgres
> --version' and got this msg:
> *bash: postgres: command not found*
>
> 'psql --version', however, does work and gives me this message :
>
> *psql (PostgreSQL) 16.3 (Debian 16.3-1.pgdg120+1)*
>
> Obviously postgres is not in the path, but I don't know where the
> 'apt-get' installed it or why it did not add it to the path.
>
> Is there a way I can locate the installation directory?

As to where the postgres command is:

ls -al /usr/lib/postgresql/16/bin/

[...]
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10338808 Aug 7 06:13 postgres*
[...]

Why do you want to use postgres directly?

>
> Thank in advance.
>
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