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Installing PostgreSQL

Apart from the client and server programs, the distribution also comes bundled with a C API and JDBC drivers.

Linux

Section titled “Linux”

Use your package manager if possible.

Otherwise, download the source. At time of writing, the latest filename of the latest version is postgresql-7.4.2.tar.gz. Read the installation instructions that came with it, they are very helpful. Since this contains the JDBC driver as well, make sure Java is setup correctly when you configure.

Terminal window
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/java/apache-ant-1.5.4/bin
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java/jdk1.2.2/
export JAVACMD=/usr/local/java/jdk1.2.2/bin/java
./configure --with-perl --with-java
make
make install

Windows

Section titled “Windows”

Currently, there is no native Windows ports, but a port comes with the standard Cygwin distribution. The category is Database, and the package is PostgreSQL.