Re: Installation trouble -- oops

Steve Crawford wrote:

>I'm having difficulty installing 8.0.4. Server is SuSE 8.2 without PG
>installed. However some client libraries are Yast installed due to
>dependency reconciliation.
>
>I'm doing the standard install (./configure, make, make install) and
>have created the postgres user and appropriate data directory but
>when I run:
>
>
Sorry I hit send before I was ready. If you used the exact command above
then
everything will be in /usr/local/pgsql ... Which means from the below it
looks like
you have more then one install of PostgreSQL.

Try:

/usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb --no-locale -D /var/lib/pgsql/data

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>initdb /var/lib/pgsql/data
>
>I get:
>
>initdb: file "/usr/share/postgres.bki" does not exist
>This means you have a corrupted installation or identified
>the wrong directory with the invocation option -L.
>
>Running:
>
>initdb -L /usr/local/pgsql/share/ /var/lib/pgsql/data
>
>Looks pretty good at first but fails at:
>
>creating conversions ... FATAL: could not access file
>"$libdir/ascii_and_mic": No such file or directory
>
>Reports from pg_config:
>--libdir: /usr/lib
>--bindir: /usr/bin
>--configure: -blank-
>--includedir-server: /usr/include/server
>--includedir: /usr/include
>--pgxs: /usr/lib/pgxs/src/makefiles/pgxs.mk
>--pkglibdir: /usr/lib
>
>Note, the directories shown for libdir, bindir, includedir and such
>are not where the files were actually installed.
>
>Now I could just start shuffling files around till things work but
>since I've installed/upgraded many PG installations without this
>difficulty I suspect there is something basic that I'm missing that
>is causing all of the trouble. Suggestions?
>
>Cheers,
>Steve
>
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