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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Benoit [mailto:sean@digital-jungle.com]
> Sent: 10 February 2006 23:25
> To: Dave Page
> Subject: adminpack For pgAdmin3 Install Woes
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> I have a development server running PostgreSQL 8.1 on FreeBSD 6.0. I
> recently installed pgAdmin3 on "OS X" and must say... great tool!
>
> However, as a newbie, I am having a huge amount of difficulty with
> this one issue...
>
> When I connect to the PostgreSQL server with pgAdmin, I get
> the "Guru
> Hint" that the server lacks instrumentation. Okay, no problem, so a
> little research let me to your adminpack.
>
> Problem is, I can't figure out where to place the "admin81"
> directory
> on the FreeBSD server so that I can compile and install it
> correctly.
> I have spend a few hours googling about but without success. Can you
> provide any insight?
That depends on how PostgreSQL was installed on the server. If it was
from source, then simply unpack the admin module in the contrib/
directory of your PostgreSQL source tree, cd into it and then run
make;make install. The configuration will all be picked up from the
source tree.
If you've used ports or a pre-built package then it might be a bit
trickier. With ports you could use the technique above, but use the
source tree that ports created. With a pre-built package you would need
to re-create the same source tree as it was built from by unpacking the
PostgreSQL code and configuring it in the same way that the package
builder did. You can then build the admin81 module in the same way as
previously mentioned.
Regards, Dave.