[CentOS] PostgeSQL 8.0.4 on CentOS4.2

Tue Oct 25 21:11:56 UTC 2005
Michael Best <mbest at pendragon.org>

Karanbir Singh wrote:
> James B. Byrne 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>
>>
> errr... --nodeps ? what for ?
> 
> - K

1. DON'T USE nodeps

It's because the binaries don't have libpq.so.3 (if I remember 
correctly).  Installing it this way will just break those things that 
need that library.

Instead.... install the compat-postgresql-libs

http://developer.postgresql.org/~devrim/rpms/compat/compat-postgresql-libs-3-3PGDG.i686.rpm

-Mike