Skytools is an open source package and can be downloaded freely from pgfoundry.org
. For the purpose of this chapter we have used Version 3.1.4:
http://skytools.projects.pgfoundry.org/testing/skytools-3.1.4.tar.gz
To install the software, we first have to extract the TAR file and run configure
. The important thing here is that we have to tell configure
where to find pg_config
. This is important to make Skytools know how to compile the code and where to look for libraries.
Tip
configure
will successfully execute if all dependencies are met. If you build from git
you will need git
, autoconf
, automake
, asciidoc
, xmlto
, and libtool
. In addition to that you will always need rsync
, psycopg2
, and Python
.
Once this has been executed successfully, we can run make
and make install
(which might have to run as root
if PostgreSQL has been installed as root
user).
./configure \ --with-pgconfig=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config make make install