Hi, On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 10:42 AM Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Igor Korot <ikorot01@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >>>> igor@solaris:/usr$ sudo bunzip2 < postgresql-9.6.1-S11.i386-64.tar.bz2 > >>>> | tar xpf - > > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 9:25 AM Ron <ronljohnsonjr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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. > > > You mean even running as "sudo"? > > In the above, the "sudo" raises the permissions of the bunzip2 program > (quite uselessly, AFAICS), while doing nothing for the tar program in > the other pipe step. Put the "sudo" in the other pipe step. > > (This is assuming that unpacking straight into /usr is actually what > you want to do. I share the doubts of the other responders about > that being a wise procedure.) Well, as I said I don't need a server - I just need libpq. So I didn't really care where to install it. ;-) Thank you. > > regards, tom lane
