Apparently, they are not installed because I did waht you suggested and
it just kept returning to the prompt. I did a file find for postgre*
and php* and nothing came up as well. Anyway, I went to the Postgres
and PHP websites and downloaded a Mandrake i586.rpm for postgres and a
tar.gz for PHP. That should get me going. Thanks for the information.
Michael
civileme wrote:
> Til recently, the answer would have been "sure", but we need to know which
> versions they were made under right now. rpm version 4 takes things to a new
> level.
>
> Anyway, the postgres and PHP3 packages are all on your Mandrake distro disk,
> and very likely are already installed; do
>
> rpm -q packagename or
> rpm -qa |grep part_of_packagename
>
> to discover if you ALREADY have the software installed.
>
> Civileme
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