On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 06:04:49AM +0000, Charles Voss wrote:
> 
> > for the sake of simplicity and easy (since you said that you are new to 
> Linux) I
> > would stick with the package of the distribution till I get some 
> experience.
> > 
> Did as you suggested (twice) and still could not get Postgres 7.0.3 (the 
> CD install) to function. Decided it was possible that something was wrong 
> with my rpm's so decided to install 7.1.3. Cleaned my system of the old 
> and downloaded/installed the new -- everything worked fine. Fired up C 
> and compiled the program; it connected just fine. Everything's great. 
> Thanks for your help. Have a good day -- you made my day.
> 

Nice to hear that it finally works! It seams that I was mistaken when I said that it
would be easier to use what came with the distribution. It would be nice to report
also to Mandrake what went wrong.

Regards and good luck,

Serban