Hi, On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 10:17 AM Ron <ronljohnsonjr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 3/22/19 9:50 PM, Igor Korot wrote: > > Hi > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 9:25 AM Ron <ronljohnsonjr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 3/23/19 8:58 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > > On 3/22/19 11:59 PM, Igor Korot wrote: > > Hi, ALL, > I tried to follow an instructions at > https://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v9.6.1/solaris/solaris11/i386/ > in the README but I received following: > > > Off hand I would say the user you are running as does not have the permissions to unpack the tarball in the location you have selected. > > > [code] > igor@solaris:/usr$ sudo bunzip2 < postgresql-9.6.1-S11.i386-64.tar.bz2 > > You mean even running as "sudo"? > > > Is that a binary or source tarball? Binary. > > If binary, is it designed specifically for Solaris? Yes, the link I posted says so. > > Does the tarball's README tell you to untar it under /usr? Not specifically. But it mentioned /usr. Thank you. > > Thank you. > > | tar xpf - > tar: postgres: Permission denied > tar: postgres: Permission denied > tar: cannot open postgres: No such file or directory > tar: postgres: Permission denied > tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg: No such file or directory > > > Yeah. Unpacking it directly into /usr doesn't seem a particularly wise idea. > > tar: postgres: Permission denied > tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/doc: No such file or directory > > [snip] > > 4/server: No such file or directory > tar: postgres: Permission denied > tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/include/64/server: No such file or directory > tar: postgres: Permission denied > tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/include/64/server/utils: No such > file or directory > tar: postgres: Permission denied > tar: cannot open postgres/9.6-pgdg/include/64/server/utils: No such > file or directory > tar: postgres: Permission denied > [/code] > > And many other like those. > > Is the instructions wrong? > > I'm trying 9.6.1 because I'm using it on Windows/OSX for libpq. > > Thank you. > > > > > > -- > Angular momentum makes the world go 'round. > > > -- > Angular momentum makes the world go 'round.
