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diff --git a/src/interfaces/python/README.linux b/src/interfaces/python/README.linux deleted file mode 100644 index 66b0346c826..00000000000 --- a/src/interfaces/python/README.linux +++ /dev/null @@ -1,46 +0,0 @@ -Thanks to thilo@eevolute.com and others for this README and the RPM - -Note: The precompiled RPM package is not available at www.eevolute.com. - You may use the spec file provided with PyGreSQL to build your - own package. - Hartmut Goebel <hartmut@goebel.noris.de> - - -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! - -Oliver White (ojw@muzak.iinet.net.au) sent me the following information -about installing on Debian. - -Hi, I thought you might want to upgrade your documentation for PyGreSQL -to let people know they can get it by simply typing 'apt-get install -python-pygresql', on debian (duh). This would have saved me a lot of -trouble. - |