Installed Fedora core 5 and now want postgresql with pgadmin up and running. On Windows this was so easy... Went to postgresql.org for installation tutorial, no help with rpm's.

On pirut have all sorts of postgresql stuff installed, so how do I even begin? How do I get pgadmin in there? No icon to click. 'yum install postgresql' came back with nothing. How do I start this program? Newbie, need step by step by step. Thanks!

Try this link.
http://idancameron.com/pages/how-to-...r-fedoralinux/

Went to this website, working from terminal: su to be the root user, then
vi /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf
Result: lots of blank lines starting with ~ and then with INSERT at the bottom. OK, lets type in: change tcpip_socket = true
& hit return: no response. Did it work? No idea so lets go edit that file directly, except we cannot open it; log off, log back in as root.

Next question: which pgsql conf file to edit? There are 2. Right-click to open with text editor gedit: "Could not open the
file /var/lib/pgsql/data/.postgresql.conf.swp." The word processor opens (Open Office) but the file is mostly # characters and then "change tcpip_socket = true#" at the bottom. Does this mean the file is somehow correct? How to edit properly?

Next, the website directs to change/ add lines to a file which is not there:
/var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf

Next, test from command line terminal:
“service postgresql start”. No initializing nor starting: get failed.

If there are any other websites with step-by-step newbie instructions, appreciated; thanks.

Hi! Whoever may be following thread, that Globus Consortium website doesn't seem correct.
U of Florida has pretty-good instructions:
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/linux/install_postgresql.htm

If you are trying to connect from PGADMIN (pgadmin3) and have only set local connections up as trusted, have in mind that you need not filling the host field at all (DO NOT PUT 127.0.0.1) just leave it blank.
Name: LOCAL
Host:
Port: 5432
Username: postgres
maintenance DB postgres/template1 depends on your previous config.

Tested on Fedora 12
Enjoy.