Postgresql 8.0.5 has been successfully installed in Ubuntu 10 . thank you to all
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> second line should be
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> sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev
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> of course. unless you're logged in as root.
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> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:26 AM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Not from a package. I don't think any recent distros have a repo with
>> 8.0 in it, so you'll have to build from source. HOWEVER, building
>> from source is REAL easy with postgresql.
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>> sudo apt-get install build-essential # ubuntu build tools
>> apt-get install libreadline-dev # used by pgsql to have an editable
>> command line
>> tar xvzf postgresql-8.0.26.tar.gz
>> cd postgresql-8.0.26
>> ./configure --prefix=/opt/postgres # or wherever you want pg to install
>> make
>> sudo make install
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>> tada! source install. Note that you might need whatever tools you
>> use to build software on your distro. On Ubuntu it's called
>> build-essential not sure what it's called on other distros.
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>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:19 AM, whashim@gmail.com <whashim@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> I believe the software can work with any postgresql 8.0.* . It is
>>> possible
>>> to install pg 8.0 in current release of linux?
>>>
>>> Sent from my HTC
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Reply message -----
>>> From: "Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
>>> To: "Wan Hashim" <whashim@gmail.com>
>>> Cc: "Adrian Klaver" <adrian.klaver@gmail.com>,
>>> <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
>>> Subject: [GENERAL] Installing Postgress 8.0.5 in Ubuntu 10.12
>>> Date: Tue, Feb 12, 2013 11:44 am
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Wan Hashim <whashim@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> our legacy system required postgresql 8.0 to run. we are in the
>>>> process of upgrading the application and database.
>>>> we must have postgresql 8.8 to keep the system running at this moment .
>>>> if possible , we want to run in Ubuntu 12. we can consider older
>>>> version of OS if it can help .
>>>
>>> If you can at least look at going to 8.0.26. there's almost 5 year of
>>> bug fixes in 8.0.26 missing frm 8.0.5, many of them data corruption
>>> bugs you really don't want to run into.
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>>
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