On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 17:24 -0400, Jack Orenstein wrote: > Pardon a dumb question. Installing Postgres 7.x on FC4-6, I would install a > large set of RPMs, these I think: > > postgresql > postgresql-contrib > postgresql-devel > postgresql-jdbc > postgresql-libs > postgresql-python > postgresql-server > > I then had everything I need to run postgres and access it from Java and Python > (through the pygresql driver). > > I'm now trying to move to 8.3.x on Fedora 9. Using pgdg-83-fedora.repo, yum > finds two RPMs, postgresql-8.3.3-1PGDG.f9.i386 and > postgresql-libs-8.3.3-1PGDG.f9.i386. I checked postgresql.org, but the fedora 9 > directories are empty, (unlike the f7 and f8 directories). > > I know that the JDBC driver is a separate project, but I'm having trouble > getting python access to work. I downloaded PyGreSQL-3.8.tgz, but cannot > install it because it relies on pg_config, which is not present the the 8.3.3 > RPMs I installed. > > Am I just on the wrong path here, starting with the postgresql and > postgresql-libs RPMs? ---- Fedora 9 has it's own postgres 8.3.3 packages as part of base... # rpm -qa|grep postgres mono-data-postgresql-1.9.1-2.fc9.i386 postgresql-odbc-08.03.0100-1.fc9.i386 postgresql-server-8.3.3-2.fc9.i386 postgresql-python-8.3.3-2.fc9.i386 postgresql-devel-8.3.3-2.fc9.i386 postgresql-8.3.3-2.fc9.i386 postgresql-libs-8.3.3-2.fc9.i386 Not sure why you feel the need to go to a 3rd party Craig
