Christian Strobl wrote: > thanks for your answers. unfortunately i misworded my problem > again. i have a very clear problem and i am looking for a > solution of this problem (if it is basic or not) and i am not > using RedHatEL/CentOS/Fedora. i am looking for a solution > which is applicable to every linux os and not only for some. > so here again my problem: > > i am looking for the possibility to install a psql client > (without a server) FROM THE SOURCE. my usecase is: one server > with a postgresql-server (self compiled) and several > workstations with psql-clients, also preferred self compiled. > i know that is possible to compile at every workstation the > sourcecode of the server to get a psql-client. but the side > effect is, that in this case i have a potential server at > every workstation and in my opinion that is a very large > footprint. i have to compile psql for myself because > otherwise (installing binaries with packaging tools) i have > no (or minimal) control about the version of the client. > i think that is a use case which can be applied to the needs > of many people (for example: oracle offers also > client-only-packages which are containing sql+, ...) > regards and please excuse my unclear question > christian > p.s. i don't want to change to RedHatEL/CentOS/Fedora Unless I understood you wrong, this is the solution: - Download the source, unpack it and follow the installation procedure described in http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/install-procedure.html - Pay specific attention to the section "Client-only installation:" in point 4. First, read http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/install-requirements.html Yours, Laurenz Albe
