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["Xn Nooby" <xnooby@xxxxxxxxx>]

How to install Posgresql8 on SLES9 ?

I am trying to install Postgresql 8.1.4 on SLES 9.  My SLES machine
currently has the SP2 and SDK installed.  The SLES9 machine also already has
Postgresql 7.4.13 installed on it.

I found some Postrgresql 8 RPMS for SLES 9 here:

  http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/suse/projects/postgresql/postgresql-8.1.4/sles9-i386/


and copied them to the directory

  /var/pos_814

Then I found some more instructions here:

  http://en.opensuse.org/Creating_YaST_Installation_Sources

Which led me to enter these commands

  cd /var/pos_814
  genIS_PLAINcache -f -r .
  gzip genIS_PLAINcache

The gzip command gets an error because the file does not exist.

In YAST I went to "Change Source of Installation" and added the "local
directory"

  on dir:///var/pos_814//  dir:///var/pos_814/

I didn't see any new Postgresql entries in the "Install and Remove Software"
screen.  So I tried some more things.  This entry did not work either:

  on dir:///var/pos_814/  dir:///var/pos_814

I also tried running gzip on the "IS_PLAINcache" which turned it into
IS_PLAINcache.gz, but it still did not work.

Hopefully I will be able to add Postrgresql 8 to yast, and then have either
the option of upgrading 7.4, or replacing it with 8.

Any suggestions?  I'm kind of new at SLES and Postgresql.

Thanks!