Re: Dated Version of PostgreSQL

Yeah I absolutely despise Gentoo for that exact reason. I don't have
that kind of time and patience to spend on keeping my system up and
running. I've spoken with the team and we've agreed to install Debian
Linux which is my distribution of choice and it supports 9.1.2.

Thanks!

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Bèrto ëd Sèra <berto(dot)d(dot)sera(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> no, usually it's a three step thing: configure, make, make install. However,
> I suggest you have a look at the README file in the source code. I always
> compile my own stuff as I run gentoo (so no binaries at all around) but each
> distro has its own peculiar things. Bear in mind that binaries usually have
> no header files for needed dependancies, so you'll probably need to install
> a number of -dev packages to get what you need.
>
> Being online on irc in the channel that deals with your distro might help.
> However, the worst that can happen is that it stops before compiling, so no
> big deal.
>
> Bèrto
>
>
> On 30 December 2011 18:59, Carlos Mennens <carlos(dot)mennens(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> I've never compiled anything from source. Is this difficult if I've
>> never done so on *NIX systems?
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Bèrto ëd Sèra <berto(dot)d(dot)sera(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi!
>> >
>> >>
>> >> My question is how exactly would I
>> >> install the latest version of PostgreSQL (9.1.2) on RHEL 6.2? Is there
>> >> an unsupported RPM for 9.1.2?
>> >
>> >
>> > Why don't you just compile it from source? If it has to be unsupported
>> > anyway, then this is probably much quicker.
>> >
>> > Bèrto
>> >
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>> > room munching pills and listening to repetitive music.
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