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steps for installing postgres 9.6 on Centos7 or RHEL

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Update the RPM package

rpm -ivh https://yum.postgresql.org/9.6/redhat/rhel-7.3-x86_64/pgdg-centos96-9.6-3.noarch.rpm

Update packages

yum update

Install Postgres

yum install postgresql96 postgresql96-server postgresql96-libs postgresql96-contrib postgresql96-devel

Initialize the DB

/usr/pgsql-9.6/bin/postgresql96-setup initdb

Start the Postgres service

systemctl enable postgresql-9.6.service
systemctl start postgresql-9.6.service

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Ch4s3 commented Oct 30, 2025

Hey all, sorry I haven't touched centos since 2017 a few months after I wrote the gist. I'd be concerned that postgresql 9.6 is far too old to install on newer versions of RHEL.