7.1 installation problem

Alexander Jerusalem writes:

I'm running into problems while trying to install 7.1 beta 4 (on RedHat
Linux 7 with bug fixes applied)
I've downloaded the rpms but when I do an rpm -iv
postgres-7.1beta4-1.i386.rpm it complains about an unresolved dependency on
libreadline.so.3. I have a libreadline.so.4. Is that ok?

It should be. The RPMs are broken in that respect.

When I ignore dependencies and continue to install, postgres won't start
because it says: "The program /usrbin/postgres needed by initdb does not
belong to PostgreSQL version 7.1beta4. Check your installation"

Don't run initdb as root. The error message has been corrected in current
sources.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://yi.org/peter-e/

Alexander Jerusalem <ajeru@gmx.net> writes:

When I ignore dependencies and continue to install, postgres won't start
because it says: "The program /usrbin/postgres needed by initdb does not
belong to PostgreSQL version 7.1beta4. Check your installation"

In beta4, it's possible that this message will appear when the real
problem is that you're trying to run initdb as root. (Bad interaction
of error checks :-(.) If so, su to postgres first.

regards, tom lane

Thanks Peter and Tom! It works!

Alexander Jerusalem
VKNN
ajeru@gmx.net

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

Alexander Jerusalem writes:

I'm running into problems while trying to install 7.1 beta 4 (on RedHat
Linux 7 with bug fixes applied)
I've downloaded the rpms but when I do an rpm -iv
postgres-7.1beta4-1.i386.rpm it complains about an unresolved dependency on
libreadline.so.3. I have a libreadline.so.4. Is that ok?

It should be. The RPMs are broken in that respect.

No, they're not broken -- unless being built on RedHat 6.2 qualifies as
broken. RedHat 7 has many differences from RedHat 6.2. The best thing
to do (until RH 7 RPM's are built -- final release will definitely have
RH 7 binaries) is to rebuild from the source RPM on all BUT RedHat 6.2.
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Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
1 Peter 4:11

Alexander Jerusalem <ajeru@gmx.net> writes:

I'm running into problems while trying to install 7.1 beta 4 (on
RedHat Linux 7 with bug fixes applied)
I've downloaded the rpms but when I do an rpm -iv
postgres-7.1beta4-1.i386.rpm it complains about an unresolved
dependency on libreadline.so.3. I have a libreadline.so.4. Is that ok?

Install the readline2.2.1-2.2.1-2 rpm (which comes with Red Hat
Linux 7 - look on your CD or ftp mirror) for backwards compatibility.

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Trond Eivind Glomsr�d
Red Hat, Inc.