On 10/20/2015 05:48 PM, anj patnaik wrote:
> Several weeks ago, I successfully
> downloaded postgresql-9.4.4-3-linux-x64.run on a Linux server.
Where did you download from?
>
> Today, I attempted to download from the site. I notice 9.5 is there, but
> getting lots of errors:
Looks like you are trying to run a *.exe(Windows) file on a Linux
machine, that is the source of the errors.
>
> 1) when downloading and running latest
>
> rchive: /home/apatnaik/Downloads/postgresql-9.4.5-1-windows-x64.exe
> [/home/apatnaik/Downloads/postgresql-9.4.5-1-windows-x64.exe]
> End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
> a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
> latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
> the last disk(s) of this archive.
> zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of
> /home/apatnaik/Downloads/postgresql-9.4.5-1-windows-x64.exe or
>
> /home/apatnaik/Downloads/postgresql-9.4.5-1-windows-x64.exe.zip, and
> cannot find
> /home/apatnaik/Downloads/postgresql-9.4.5-1-windows-x64.exe.ZIP, period.
>
> 2) Then I tried to scp from the other machine and changed permissions to
> 777 and used sudo to execute the file but get this:
>
> bash-4.1$ chmod 777 postgresql-9.4.4-3-linux-x64.run
> bash-4.1$ sudo ./postgresql-9.4.4-3-linux-x64.run
> Installer payload initialization failed. This is likely due to an
> incomplete or corrupt downloaded file.
>
>
> What is the recommended 9.4 version to download from and the steps?
What OS and version?
>
> I want to use the graphical installer since I used it last time.
Assuming you mean the EDB installer:
http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/pgdownload
>
> Thanks a lot!!
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Adrian Klaver
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