Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> is the debian maintainer...
... John
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From: pgsql-www-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-www-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Justin Clift
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 10:30 PM
To: pgsql-www@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Comment 1976 added to page installation.html of version
Hi all,
This seems more appropriate to be forwarded to the Debian packager, or the docs people.
Any suggestions? (I'm not sure who looks after the Debian packages)
Regards and best wishes,
Justin Clift
nobody wrote:
> Author: kwanghui Lim <lim_kwang_hui@yahoo.com>
> ----
> Dear Moderator,
>
> I sent the earlier comment (attached below).
> pl note some changes are needed:
> /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/createdb test
> /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/psql test
>
> I would appreciate if you could update those two lines.
> Basically, on debian systems, the executable files are not stored in /usr/local/pgsql/bin but at
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/instead.
>
> Many Thanks
>
> .kwang.
>
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>
> kwang <lim_kwang_hui AT yahoo.com>
> 06 Jan 2005 15:42:53
>
> On Debian Systems, the "short version" of the setup above should use the following, including the different
directories.
>
> to install the package
> apt-get update
> apt-get install postgresql
>
> initialize the database system
> su
> su - postgres
> /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb -D /var/lib/postgres/data
> /etc/init.d/postgresql start
>
> that's it. once running, you can use it, e.g.
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/createdb test
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql test
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