[CentOS] RPM conflicts - help!

Benjamin Smith lists at benjamindsmith.com
Tue Dec 27 01:52:24 UTC 2005


Thanks - you rock! 

-Ben 

On Monday 26 December 2005 12:48, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 10:33 -0800, Benjamin Smith wrote:
> > I'm building a database/application server with a Dual-Opteron 64 bit 
system. 
> > 
> > I need to run PHP4, Apache, and Postgres 8.1, but I'm having conflicts 
with 
> > Postgres 8.1 and PHP 4 that comes with CentOS. 
> > 
> > History: 
> > 1) I installed Apache and PHP with yum. 
> > 2) I then installed PostgreSQL 8.1 RPMs from the PG website. 
> > 3) Then, I tried to install php-pgsql with yum - and it didn't work, 
> > complaining about pgsql.so.3. So, I installed with --nodeps and symlinked 
the 
> > /usr/lib64/libpq.so.4 -> /usr/lib64/libpq.so.3. 
> > 
> > Now, PHP and PGSQL work without any problems. But now, I can't do a yum 
update 
> > - it still complains about pgsql.so.3! 
> > 
> > What can I do to resolve this? 
> > 
> 
> We have a pgslq 8.x in the dev.centos.org site ... you might try that:
> 
> http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/x86_64/RPMS/
> 
> (remember that this is beta quality for centos ... but it still should
> be a better fit than standard stuff from the pgsql website because it
> should work with php/apache from centos.)
> 

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