On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 05:09, Mike Christensen <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Mike Christensen <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>>> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> If you have a libossp-uuid.so.16, you might try symlinking libuuid.so.16 >>>>> to that instead of carrying a separate file. >>> >>>> So now what you're saying is if it's not broke, fix it till it is :) >>> >>> Well, it's hard to argue with that position ;-). But I'll try anyway: >>> the platform-provided version of the library will be updated for bug >>> fixes, compatibility rebuilds, etc. Your private copy won't be, unless >>> you remember to do it. Eventually that's gonna bite ya. >>> >>> Of course the best fix would be for EDB to ship a build of Postgres >>> that actually follows the platform-standard naming convention for this >>> library. I'm still wondering why they're linking to libuuid.so. >>> Dave? >>> >>> regards, tom lane >>> >> >> Agreed. However, if you go to >> http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux then it points you right to >> EnterpriseDB to download a bin installer. So your choices are: > > The very first paragraph says we recommend you use apt packages. > > I wanted to move the packages higher up in the actual list, but was > voted down ;) > >> >> 1) Use apt-get: This won't give you 9.0 yet (I think 10.04 only has 8.4) > > It is. You need to enable the PPA at > https://launchpad.net/~pitti/+archive/postgresql, per > http://www.piware.de/2010/09/postgresql-9-0-final-released/. > > We should probably add a link to that PPA from the donwload page. > Martin - any reason *not* to do that? > > > >> 2) Build it yourself (I'm not enough of a hacker to do this, probably >> the case with most "novice" users) > > Yeah, that's definitely not recommended. > >> 3) One click installer maintained by EDB. >> 4) Some other repository out there? Dunno if anyone maintains one. >> >> I agree, EDB needs to make this "just work" on the latest Ubuntu. > > Yes, in this case it looks like a bug in the EDB installer that should be fixed. > > But even when that is fixed, the recommendation is still to use the > APT packages since you get all the package management integration etc. > > BTW - Dave, I notice the edb page says only ubuntu 8.04 and up, fedora > 10 and up, etc are supported by the installers from 9.0 and newer - > the download page on pg.org should probably be updated with that > information. > > -- > Magnus Hagander > Me: http://www.hagander.net/ > Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ > Thanks! In the future, I'll use the apt package.. I prefer this option when available.. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
