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diff --git a/src/interfaces/python/README.linux b/src/interfaces/python/README.linux new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..8fd75f252f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/interfaces/python/README.linux @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +Thanks to thilo@eevolute.com for this README and the RPM + + +INSTALLING PyGreSQL on Redhat Linux 5.1 or 5.2 +============================================== + +Things are pretty easy on Redhat Linux. You can either get a precompiled +RPM package from + + ftp://www.eevolute.com/pub/python/ + +or try in compile and install it yourself: + +bash$ make redhat # this just compiles the module as a shared object +cc -fpic -shared -o _pg.so -I/usr/include/python1.5 pgmodule.c -lpq +bash$ python # you can test it from your local directory +Python 1.5.1 (#1, May 6 1998, 01:48:27) [GCC 2.7.2.3] on linux-i386 +Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam +>>> import _pg +>>> db = _pg.connect('thilo', 'localhost') +>>> db.query("INSERT INTO test VALUES ('ping', 'pong')") +18304 +>>> db.query("SELECT * FROM test") +eins|zwei +----+---- +ping|pong +(1 row) + +bash$ su # Yow! Seems to work - now install it properly +bash# cp _pg.so /usr/lib/python1.5/lib-dynload + +done! + |