I installed RHEL6 and was pleased to see PostgreSQL v8.4.7 packaged with it. However, v9.0 has come out and I need to stay abreast of the latest developments and test my software applications against it. Therefore, I took the following steps to install v9.0.4. STEP 1: Downloaded and installed the RPMS I downloaded the pgdg-redhat-9.0.2.noarch.rpm …
My database development activities center around Oracle 11g and I recently installed the 11.2.0.1.0 x86_64 on a RHEL6 server. I thought I would document the steps I took NOT AS A DEFINITIVE GUIDE but to try to help those, who, like me, often have to search for answers and wonder if they’re on the right …
RHEL6 ships with MySQL 5.1.52, but I do database development and need to test against the latest version. To get to 5.5.11 on my new RHEL6 server, I took the following steps: STEP 1: Remove MySQL 5.1.52 I used the following commands to uninstall MySQL 5.1.52: yum erase mysql yum erase mysql-libs.x86_64 STEP 2: Download …
I recently installed RHEL6 and while I selected the option to use all disk space at the time of installation, I did not customize the partitions. The system has two 1TB drives and after installation, the logical volume of the first drive was partitioned to (ignoring the small swap area): 857.5G for /home 50G for …