On 10/26/05, James B. Byrne <ByrneJB at harte-lyne.ca> wrote: > In case anyone besides me is interested, installing these packages > on CentOS4.2 seems to work. You can determine the correct mirror > to use from: > > http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.0.4/linux/rpms/redhat/rhel- > es-4/ > > The rpm command that I used was: > > rpm --upgrade --nodeps --hash -v <package url> <snipped> Thanks Jim. Very useful guide - used it to upgrade our server to 8.0.4 (7.x.x would've been fine generally but I wanted the new ALTER COLUMN ... ALTER TABLE ... TYPE command). Seems --nodeps was the missing flag needed to install the packages without complaining about dependencies. -- Stand before it and there is no beginning. Follow it and there is no end. Stay with the ancient Tao, Move with the present.