[CentOS] crypto, readline and zlib libraries - Postgres install

[Karl Denninger]

Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> Karl Jennings wrote:
>> I have the 5.x Centos DVD and loaded it.
>>
>> Please be gentle with me, as I'm nominally a FreeBSD kind of guy... :)
>>
>> Anyway, I'm trying to install Postgres and the three libraries in the 
>> subject line are missing off the base installation.  I figured out 
>> how to load gcc using yum, but those libraries aren't there, and I 
>> need the former in particular in order to enable SSL for Postgres 
>> client connections.  A perusal of "yum list" with an appropriate grep 
>> or two doesn't elicit anything useful.
>>
>> Anyone know where I find these?  I loaded just the standard distro, 
>> no graphical user environment (neither Gnome or KDB)
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
> Hi Karl
>
> yum works in a similar way to BSD's ports, in that it can 
> automatically download the needed dependencies. So, running "yum 
> install postgresql" gives me the following:
>
> Dependencies Resolved
>
> ============================================================================= 
>
> Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        
> Size
> ============================================================================= 
>
> Installing:
> postgresql              x86_64     8.1.11-1.el5_1.1  updates           
> 2.9 M
> Installing for dependencies:
> postgresql-libs         x86_64     8.1.11-1.el5_1.1  updates           
> 195 k
>
> Transaction Summary
> ============================================================================= 
>
> Install      2 Package(s)
> Update       0 Package(s)
> Remove       0 Package(s)
>
> Total download size: 3.1 M
> Is this ok [y/N]:
>
> This means it will download all the packages (and they respective 
> dependencies) for you and install it.
>
> Running " yum search postgresql | more" gives me a list of all the 
> different posgresql scripts (PHP, PERL, devel, etc) that can also be 
> installed.
>
> HTH
>
That doesn't help (I'm trying to built it from source)

Without readline, zlib and the crypto libraries you can't build the full 
8.3 release....... and installing 8.1 as a distro doesn't get you the 
libraries you need to build.

Karl Denninger (karl at denninger.net)
http://www.denninger.net