Re: install Postgres on RHED 7

Pepe TD Vo wrote:

> I have downloaded

> https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/11/redhat/rhel-7server-x86_64/repodata/repo

> <https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/11/redhat/rhel-7server-x86_64/repodata/repomd.exl:>md.xml,

> what location should I put it in?  Also, I saw drmp folder, do I need to

> download this folder too?

Unless you're maintaining the repository you shouldn't need to manually

download parts of it;  that's what tools like yum are for.  (I'm not

sure trying to hand-feed parts of a repository to yum is going to work

well anyway;  parts of the local cache will end up mismatched and yum

may delete the whole set as corrupt.  I haven't done much with RPM-based

systems in a while so I'm not sure what yum would do.)

If yum can't access a public repository like PGDG, you'll need to

investigate the network path and DNS results as suggested a couple of

times.  Looking back up the messages you may also need to contact Red

Hat support for assistance adding a third-party repository to the yum

configuration.  The error you reported doesn't seem to make sense to me

for a third-party repository, only for the primary official Red Hat one(s).

It's also sounding a little like you're behind a restrictive firewall

that's blocking access;  in that case you should either work with your

network administrators to open access, or skip the regular repository

access entirely and manually download the .rpm package files you need

for the Postgres components you want to eg a USB stick.  Or to another

server that you *can* access from the machine you want to do the install on.

At that point you're back to "try to install this package file, see what

dependencies it's missing, download the missing dependencies", and

repeat until you've got things installed.  I don't recommend this;  for

complex packages it can take hours.  And you have to do it all over

again when a package update comes out.

-kgd