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