On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 20:23 +0000, Richard Huxton wrote: > garry saddington wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 19:00 +0000, Richard Huxton wrote: > >> Any reason not to use the distro's built-in package manager to fetch > >> server and client for you? > > The application is aimed at teachers and so it needs to be very simple > > for them to test its features. Any barriers to this will reduce the take > > up. > > In that case, it probably is simplest to make sure you supply all your > own libraries. I am trying to do this but see below. > > There's also a live-cd of PostgreSQL somewhere. You might find that > useful if you wanted to build a boot-and-go demo. Or even a vmware > virtual-image. I am trying to build postgres with a certain socket but I can not find the correct configure directive, any ideas? Regards Garry