On Jul 20, 2007, at 8:19 AM, Christoph Heibl wrote:
I' ve been trying to mirror the harddisk of my old mac via firewire
on my new computer (Intel Core Duo, OS 10.4.10) which resulted
fairly well expect that my postgreSQL got screwed up. I then tried
to install it once more, but this failed. I guess I did not remove
all the remaining files before installation and I ended up with
this failure:
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Christoph-Heibls-Computer:~/src/postgresql-8.2.4 Stoffi$ ./configure
[....]
Christoph-Heibls-Computer:~/src/postgresql-8.2.4 Stoffi$ make
[....] All of PostgreSQL successfully made. Ready to install.
Christoph-Heibls-Computer:~/src/postgresql-8.2.4 Stoffi$ make install
make -C doc install
gzip -d -c ./postgres.tar.gz | ( cd /usr/local/pgsql/doc/html && /
usr/bin/tar xf - )
/usr/bin/tar: index.html: Cannot open: File exists
/
Why not just move (or delete) the existing PostgreSQL directory
before make install?
If you want to check out what is already there, start Terminal and type:
open /usr/local/pgsql
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