Re: Could not find your PostgreSQL installation in /var/lib/pgsql

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Terrance Chen <naturalchen(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:

> system=fedora15
> software env=all software in DVD are completely installed(include pgsql
> psql) and some thing like pppoe
> postgresql are install with fedora by default option,
> /etc/passwd/: postgres PostgreSQL
> Server:/var/lib/pgsql:/bin/bash
>
> operations:
> su - postgres
> initdb -D /var/lib/pgsql/data -E UTF-8
> pg_ctl -D /var/lib/pgsql/data -l logfile start
> pg_ctl status {terminal return pg_ctl: (PID: 3052)/usr/bin/postgres
> "-D" "/var/lib/pgsql/data"}
> createdb DatabaseName
> psql DatabaseName
> su - root
> cd /home/download/pgadmin3-1.14.0
> ./configure --with-pgsql=/var/lib/pgsql
>

/var/lib/pgsql is your data directory. --with-pgsql is looking for
binaries.

try ./configure --with-pgsql=/usr/
or
./configure --with-pgsql=/usr/bin/

--Scott

>
> { Could not find your PostgreSQL installation in /var/lib/pgsql }
>