Hi, ALL, On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 11:32 PM Igor Korot <ikorot01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. ;-) I am sorry to say this, but unfortunately I will have to build it from sources. It looks like the binary package I downloaded were built with the gcc and I'm trying to build my software with the Oracle DevStudio. Thank you all and sorry for wasting everybody's time. > > Thank you. > > > > > regards, tom lane
