On March 23, 2006 01:32 pm, "Brian Kitzberger" <KITZBERGERB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Steve, > > Okay, not only am I new to PostgreSQL but I am new to Linux with a > little experience years ago with Unix. So I didn't know about rpm nor > does any one else here. But anyway, the result of running rpm is: > > postgresql-libs-7.4.8-0.6 > postgresql-server-7.4.8-0.6 > postgresql-jdbc-7.3-189.1 > postgresql-7.4.8-0.6 > qt3-postgresql-3.3.1-35.11 > > I did an ls in the /usr/bin directory and sure enough there are the > other files I could not find before. So I guess I will have to cross > the bridge. As a test, I just mv the file /usr/bin/pg_dump. If rpm had > a dependence on that file would it cause some kind of error message in > trying to move it? I was able to successfully move the file to the > root. > RPM won't say anything unless you run rpm commands (ie. rpm -e package to remove it). The only one of those you're likely to have a dependency problem with is postgresql-libs. perl-DBD-Pg, and possibly a few other packages (like PHP, as a previous poster mentioned), will be linked to that. -- Alan
