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14.3. Getting The Source

The PostgreSQL 8.0.18 sources can be obtained by anonymous FTP from ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v8.0.18/postgresql-8.0.18.tar.gz. Use a mirror if possible. After you have obtained the file, unpack it:

gunzip postgresql-8.0.18.tar.gz
tar xf postgresql-8.0.18.tar

This will create a directory postgresql-8.0.18 under the current directory with the PostgreSQL sources. Change into that directory for the rest of the installation procedure.


User Comments


drm <drm AT melp.nl>
13 Feb 2005 17:38:32

Unzipping directly from the tarball is also possible on most tar distributions:

For gzip archives:
tar -zxf postgresql-8.0.0.tar.gz

For bzip2 archives:
tar -jxf postgresql-8.0.0.tar.bz2

infofarmer <infofarmer AT gmail.com>
28 Sep 2005 9:04:00

And on FreeBSD - just plain

tar xf postgresql-8.0.0.ext

no matter what "ext" is (tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, tgz, tbz...)

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