[mb-devel] HOWTO - Creating just the database in a VMware box with Debian

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

Dave Evans wrote:
> Arcade wrote:
> 
>>>Thanks goes to Dave for helping me with this.  It took me a while, but I
>>>finally got it!  I'm posting my HOWTO for anyone who wants to do it
>>>themselves ....
> 
> 
> Excellent job!
> 
> If you just want the data in a database, and you don't want Apache etc,
> here's another method.
> 
> * It's more flexible (you can choose not to bother creating the foreign
> key constraints, for example)
> * It has fewer prerequisites (you don't need Perl, nor any of the Perl
> modules, nor postgresql-devel)
> * However it is a bit more "hands on" - you have to check each step for
> errors yourself, and the import is about 10 or so commands instead of
> just one.
[snip actual method]

I followed this method successfully to load the database on my Mac.

Jamie
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