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 -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for Web Hosting stugg