Re: Installing PostgreSQL Yum Repository

Hi,

On Sat, 2012-08-18 at 10:25 -0700, Jonathan Pool wrote:
> I am trying to follow the instructions on
> http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/ for installing the
> PostgreSQL Yum Repository (on RHEL 5).
>
> So I downloaded pgdg-redhat-9.1-4.noarch.rpm into a directory from
> http://yum.postgresql.org/9.1/redhat/rhel-5-x86_64/pgdg-redhat-9.1-4.noarch.rpm.
>
> Then I tried to install it with:
>
> rpm -i
> http://yum.postgresql.org/9.1/redhat/rhel-5-x86_64/pgdg-redhat-9.1-4.noarch.rpm
>
> Instead of an installation, I got:
>
> error: skipping
> http://yum.postgresql.org/9.1/redhat/rhel-5-x86_64/pgdg-redhat-9.1-4.noarch.rpm - transfer failed - Unknown or
unexpectederror 

Could you please try:

rpm -ivh http://yum.postgresql.org/9.1/redhat/rhel-5-x86_64/pgdg-redhat91-9.1-5.noarch.rpm


> I was surprised that the instructions told me to download a file and then issue a command that doesn't reference the
downloadedfile. 

That is my mistake. I changed the filenames a few months before, but it
seems I forgot to update website:

http://yum.postgresql.org/repopackages.php

This is now up2date.

Regards,

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