the other side of the firewall http://sahuguet.blogsome.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 31 Dec 2005 16:23:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha en installing postgres on Solaris 10 http://sahuguet.blogsome.com/2005/08/25/installing-postgres-on-solaris-10/ http://sahuguet.blogsome.com/2005/08/25/installing-postgres-on-solaris-10/#comments Thu, 25 Aug 2005 22:51:08 +0000 Administrator Hacks Solaris Development Databases http://sahuguet.blogsome.com/2005/08/25/installing-postgres-on-solaris-10/ I had some minor trouble installing postgres on Solaris 10.
For instance, I had the following error message:

ld.so.1: initdb: fatal: libreadline.so.5: open failed:
No such file or directory
Killed

So, here is a summary of what I had to do.

  • install the libreadline package (can be found on the Sun web site)
    pkgadd -d SFWrline
  • install the postgres package (postgresql-8.0.1-sol10-sparc-local) from sunfreeware
    pkgadd -d postgresql-8.0.1-sol10-sparc-local
  • add a symbolic link for libreadline.so.5
    ln -s libreadline.so libreadline.so.5
  • make sure your LD_LIBRARY_PATH is properly set-up
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/pgsql/lib:/opt/sfw/lib

  • run the init command
    /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
  • et voilà

    Success. You can now start the database server using:
    /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
    or
    /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -l logfile start
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