What else can I do?

STEP ONE

I installed Red Hat Linux release 4.2 (Biltmore) Kernel 2.0.30 on an i586
on a brand new HP Vectra VL computer. I installed *everything*. I ended up
with a brand new fat Unix server.

STEP TWO

I created the user pgsql, downloaded postgresql-6.2.1-2.i586.rpm and
installed it.

STEP THREE

After rebooting I logged on as pgsql and tried to run postmaster. It
complained and asked for cryptlib so I looked for it and found
glibc-crypt-2.0.4-1.i386.rpm and installed it.

STEP FOUR

I logged on as pgsql and tried to run postmaster. It complained and asked
for libc.so.6 so I looked for it, found it and installed it.

STEP FIVE

I logged on as pgsql and tried to run postmaster. It complained and asked
for ld-linux.so.2 so I looked for it, found it and installed it.

STEP SIX

I logged on as pgsql and tried to run postmaster. It complained and told me
"Segmentation fault (core dumped)".

What else can I do?

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I suggest error messages could be more friendly and instead of saying

postmaster: can't load library 'libcrypt.so.1'

they should say

postmaster: can't load library 'libcrypt.so.1', check
/usr/doc/postgresql-6.2.1-2/findit.txt to see where you can find it

It would make our lives easier.

Maybe I'm asking for too much but the XMas spirit got to me already.

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