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On most GNU+Linux operating systems, PostgreSQL can easily be installed using the operating system package manager. Red Hat family Respositories can be found here: https://yum.postgresql.org/repopackages.php Download the repository to local machine with the command yum -y install https://downloa...

In order to install PostgreSQL on OSX, you need to know which versions are currently supported. Use this command to see what versions you have available. sudo port list | grep "^postgresql[[:digit:]]\{2\}[[:space:]]" You should get a list that looks something like the following: post...

An extremely simple tool for installing PostgreSQL on a Mac is available by downloading Postgres.app. You can change preferences to have PostgreSQL run in the background or only when the application is running.

While it's good practice to use a Unix based operating system (ex. Linux or BSD) as a production server you can easily install PostgreSQL on Windows (hopefully only as a development server). Download the Windows installation binaries from EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-...

Homebrew calls itself 'the missing package manager for macOS'. It can be used to build and install applications and libraries. Once installed, you can use the brew command to install PostgreSQL and it's dependencies as follows: brew update brew install postgresql Homebrew generally installs the...

Dependencies: GNU Make Version > 3.80 an ISO/ ANSI C-Compiler (e.g. gcc) an extractor like tar or gzip zlib-devel readline-devel oder libedit-devel Sources: Link to the latest source (9.6.3) Now you can extract the source files: tar -xzvf postgresql-9.6.3.tar.gz There are a large ...