PostgreSQL Installation

The process for installing PostgreSQL on your Boxcar is very simple as the package management system will do most of the hard work for you. Currently, postgresql 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3 are available for installation on your boxcar image.

To install version 8.3, for example, you could do:

aptitude install postgresql-8.3 postgresql-doc-8.3 libpq-dev

libpq-dev is required to build the postgres gem below

To install 8.1 or 8.2 instead, just change the numbers above.

When you are prompted with the following, answer Y (enter).

Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y

The last step will be to add PostgreSQL support to your Ruby installation.

# gem install postgres

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