On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 1:50 PM Susan Joseph <sandajos...@verizon.net> wrote:
> OK, when I went to PostgreSQL to get the rpm file to install I was given: > > yum install > https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/reporpms/EL-7-x86_64/pgdg-redhat-repo-latest.noarch.rpm > > I put the file pgdg-redhat-repo-latest.noarch.rpm in my /tmp directory and > ran rpm -i on the file. > > If I run rpm -qa | grep postgres > > I get postgresql-libs-9.2.24-4.el7_8.x86_64 > > > When I run: rpm -ql postgresql-libs-9.2.24-4.el7_8.x86_64 I just get a > list of libraries. > > > I am not an SA, I am more of an engineer and have been working with the > PostgreSQL I installed by building it so not really used to RPM. I have > used YUM but that was with a connected server. > > How do I find all the packages that I need to have to do an install locally? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alan Hodgson <ahodg...@lists.simkin.ca> > To: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org > Sent: Thu, Jun 4, 2020 1:36 pm > Subject: Re: PostgreSQL 11 with SSL on Linux > > On Thu, 2020-06-04 at 17:32 +0000, Susan Joseph wrote: > > So when I run rpm -i it says that the package is installed, but I can't > find a postgresql directory with all the files and executables. So what am > I missing? > > > The server stuff is in postgresql11-serverif you're using the community > rpms. > > Hi, I've had to do this in the past and I think you probably want to do this: 1. connect to a machine that has access to repos 2. go here: https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/ 3. where it says "Direct RPM Download", click on the "direct download" link 4. this takes you here: https://yum.postgresql.org/rpmchart.php 5. click on "11 RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux 7 - x86_64" or whatever is the appropriate version you are looking for 6. this takes you here: https://yum.postgresql.org/11/redhat/rhel-7-x86_64/repoview/ 7. under "Available Groups", click on the " PostgreSQL Database Server 11 PGDG" link 8. which takes you here: https://yum.postgresql.org/11/redhat/rhel-7-x86_64/repoview/postgresqldbserver11.group.html 9. here, you'll see four packages listed 10. click on each, which takes you to a page where the latest package is available 11. repeat for all four and download all of the four and copy then to your offline server, so for example, /tmp 12. then try and do an rpm -ivh /tmp/<name_of_pkg>, so for example rpm -ivh postgresql11-server-11.8-1PGDG.rhel7.x86_64 13. I believe this should place the postgres stuff in /var/lib/pgsql 14. additional packages can be downloaded as needed -- mohammed
