Installing and moving the files to where they belong
This is the step where the files are copied to the correct directories. As the installation process involves writing files to directories, which an ordinary user cannot write to, we need to use su for this step:
su
If you are interested in seeing what happens during the installation step, redirect the output to a file, for example, gmake install-world > /tmp/install.out.
We used the keyword world for make. We will use a similar option for installation too:
gmake install-world
If all goes well, we will see a message that says PostgreSQL, contrib, and documentation successfully made. Ready to install. If the output was directed to a file as mentioned, we can open it and see that the installation ...
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