| From: | Don Fox <donfox1(at)mac(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Mladen Gogala <Mladen(dot)Gogala(at)vmsinfo(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Difficulty installing postgresql on Max OSX Leopard. |
| Date: | 2009-10-31 21:13:35 |
| Message-ID: | A41FACE6-3E3B-4CF4-9552-FEBC15D32BCF@mac.com |
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I ment .gz! Sorry!
On Oct 31, 2009, at 4:36 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Don Fox <donfox1(at)mac(dot)com> writes:
>> I'm downloading from Mac OS X Snow Leopard. This copy(from http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/v8.4.1/
>> ) goes into my Downloads dir AND the Trash.
>> The file in the Trash still has the .zip extension while the one in
>> downloads has only the .tar.
>
> .zip? There are no .zip files at that webpage.
>
> What it sounds like is you've got Stuffit Expander or some similar
> utility configured to auto-expand compressed files, and it's messing
> the file up somehow. If it's a hangover from a former Leopard
> installation, maybe the problem is the utility isn't quite compatible
> with Snow Leopard.
>
> Another possibility is your browser is doing this. Check its
> preferences for something like "auto-open downloaded files".
>
> regards, tom lane
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