17.3. Getting the Source
The
PostgreSQL
14.13 sources can be obtained from the
download section of our
website:
https://www.postgresql.org/download/
. You
should get a file named
postgresql-14.13.tar.gz
or
postgresql-14.13.tar.bz2
. After
you have obtained the file, unpack it:
gunzip postgresql-14.13.tar.gz
tar xf postgresql-14.13.tar
(Use
bunzip2
instead of
gunzip
if
you have the
.bz2
file. Also, note that most
modern versions of
tar
can unpack compressed archives
directly, so you don't really need the
separate
gunzip
or
bunzip2
step.)
This will create a directory
postgresql-14.13
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 .