16.3. Getting the Source
The
PostgreSQL
12.17 sources can be obtained from the
download section of our
website:
https://www.postgresql.org/download/
. You
should get a file named
postgresql-12.17.tar.gz
or
postgresql-12.17.tar.bz2
. After
you have obtained the file, unpack it:
gunzip postgresql-12.17.tar.gztar xf postgresql-12.17.tar
(Use
bunzip2
instead of
gunzip
if you
have the
.bz2
file.)
This will create a directory
postgresql-12.17
under the current directory
with the
PostgreSQL
sources.
Change into that directory for the rest
of the installation procedure.
You can also get the source directly from the version control repository, see Appendix I .