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