* Prasanth A. Kumar <kumar1@home.com> [000717 08:49] wrote:
> Gilles DAROLD <gilles@darold.net> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Please don't use RPM if you don't want to have a Win$ based install.
> > It's remember me a very old question: Where are the DLL ?
> >
> > The better way is to get the tarball and do a fresh compilation, you will
> > learn more about postgres (see the INSTALL file and other documentation).
> > And then all your files will go in /usr/local/pgsql by default !
> >
> > Note: I use rh6.2 :-)
>
> Except that with tarball, you have a much higher chance of not
> compiling, misconfiguring, or botching the install (I dont't mean
> postgress specifically here.) And when this happens to your friends
> and coworkers, and you are the local Linux expert, who do you think
> will be doing the 'learning'? :-)
Depends on the size of your LART. :)
-Alfred