Re: 7.1 installation problem

Alexander Jerusalem writes:

> I'm running into problems while trying to install 7.1 beta 4 (on RedHat
> Linux 7 with bug fixes applied)
> I've downloaded the rpms but when I do an rpm -iv
> postgres-7.1beta4-1.i386.rpm it complains about an unresolved dependency on
> libreadline.so.3. I have a libreadline.so.4. Is that ok?

It should be.  The RPMs are broken in that respect.

> When I ignore dependencies and continue to install, postgres won't start
> because it says: "The program /usrbin/postgres needed by initdb does not
> belong to PostgreSQL version 7.1beta4. Check your installation"

Don't run initdb as root.  The error message has been corrected in current
sources.

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