Re: trouble downloading postgres 9.4 for RHEL 6.x

On 10/21/2015 09:14 AM, anj patnaik wrote:

Ok, i am trying to determine why I am getting errors. Is it possible
that my browser is corrupting the transfer?

Maybe, though I used FireFox to download also. I would go to wherever the file has been downloaded on your computer and delete it and try the download again. The file I got was:

37548416 Oct 21 09:20 postgresql-9.5.0-beta1-linux-x64.run

CCing list

I am seeing: Installer payload initialization failed. This is likely due
to an incomplete or corrupt downloaded file.

I am a Linux newbie. Is there a way to test if the transfers are getting
corrupted?

after download, did you just change permissions and ran sudo
./postgres.run file?

Yes, so:

aklaver@killi:~/Downloads> chmod 755 postgresql-9.5.0-beta1-linux-x64.run

aklaver@killi:~/Downloads> sudo ./postgresql-9.5.0-beta1-linux-x64.run

The reason for using installer is that it goes through all the steps and
instantiates a sid.

What is a sid?

The purpose of this installation is for me to have a database to rest
the restoration of pg_dump.

You can also get that with a Yum install, see below for more:

http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/

Thank you.

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Adrian Klaver
<adrian.klaver@aklaver.com <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>> wrote:

    On 10/21/2015 08:57 AM, anj patnaik wrote:

        I used the same link:
        http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/pgdownload

        I chose /*Version 9.5.0 Beta 1*/ Linux x86-64


    I downloaded(postgresql-9.5.0-beta1-linux-x64.run) and ran it. I did
    not actually complete the install as I already have Postgres
    installed  on this machine. This is on openSUSE 13.2, not that it
    should matter.


        Then, I tried 9.4 for Linux x86-64

        Has anyone downloaded/installed within last 2 days? my OS is
        RHEL 6.5

        I am using the Linux machine's firefox browser to download.

        is there a way to use yum to get the same installer program that
        goes
        through all the steps?


    No, Yum will not use the installer program, it will use the RH
    native packaging.

    Is there a particular reason you want the installer?

    Something specific you want to install?


        Please advise. thanks

        On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Adrian Klaver
        <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
        <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com

        <mailto:adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>>> wrote:

             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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