Re: BUG #14777: Postgres Installation not Successful.

On 8/10/2017 12:02 AM, mithscool74(at)gmail(dot)com wrote:
> The following bug has been logged on the website:
>
> Bug reference: 14777
> Logged by: Mithilesh Sutrave
> Email address:mithscool74(at)gmail(dot)com
> PostgreSQL version: 9.5.7
> Operating system: Linux 5.6
> Description:
>
> I am installing Postgres 9.5 on REDHAT 5.6. However during installation I am
> facing few errors of dependencies. I installed
> "pgdg-redhat96-9.6-3.noarch.rpm" which was executed successfully.Later when
> I executed "yum install postgres95" I got the dependency error for
> "libpq5.8-9.5.7-alt1.x86_64.rpm". Then during investigation of this error I
> got another dependency error for "libc.so.6" and others.
>
> Now can anyone please help me with the complete package of postgres95 with
> all the dependencies for RHEL 5.6 which can lead to successful installation
> of PostgreSQL.

this is not actually a bug, its an installation support issue.

the final version of Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 was update 11, often
called 5.11. "5.6" was the update 6 snapshot from January 2011. you
are about 6.5 years behind on security and stability updates. any
given release of the postgres repositories is only tested against the
most current build of a given OS version at the time of the postgres
release.

if you want to install 9.5 on RHEL 5, you would use
https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/9.5/redhat/rhel-5-x86_64/pgdg-redhat95-9.5-3.noarch.rpm
as the file you list is for Postgres 9.6 not 9.5

I do not know what that libpq5.8-9.5.7-alt1 thing is, as -alt1 is not
part of either the stock RHEL 5 or the PGDG repositories (google
suggests its 'ALT Linux", which I've never heard of, but appears to be a
fork of what started as SuSE and Mandrake Russian Edition). libpq in
the yum.postgresql distributions comes from
postgresql95-libs-9.5.7-1PGDG.rhel5.x86_64.rpm

please reply to the pgsql-bugs list, and not me personally, I'm just
another user.

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