# Installing &repmgr; from packages

We recommend installing &repmgr; using the available packages for your system.

## RedHat/CentOS/Fedora

&repmgr; RPM packages for RedHat/CentOS variants and Fedora are available from the EDB public repository; see following section for details.

Currently the EDB public repository provides support for RedHat/CentOS versions 6,7 and 8.

RPM packages for &repmgr; are also available via Yum through the PostgreSQL Global Development Group (PGDG) RPM repository (https://yum.postgresql.org/). Follow the instructions for your distribution (RedHat, CentOS, Fedora, etc.) and architecture as detailed there. Note that it can take some days for new &repmgr; packages to become available via the this repository.

&repmgr; RPM packages are designed to be compatible with the community-provided PostgreSQL packages and EDB's PostgreSQL Extended Server (formerly 2ndQPostgres). They may not work with vendor-specific packages such as those provided by RedHat for RHEL customers, as the PostgreSQL filesystem layout may be different to the community RPMs. Please contact your support vendor for assistance.

See also FAQ entry faq-third-party-packages.

For more information on the package contents, including details of installation paths and relevant service commands, see the appendix section packages-centos.

### EDB public RPM yum repository

EDB provides a dedicated `yum` public repository for EDB software, including &repmgr;. We recommend using this for all future &repmgr; releases.

General instructions for using this repository can be found on its homepage. Specific instructions for installing &repmgr; follow below.

Installation

- Locate the repository RPM for your PostgreSQL version from the list at: https://dl.enterprisedb.com/

- Install the repository definition for your distribution and PostgreSQL version (this enables the EDB repository as a source of &repmgr; packages).

  For example, for PostgreSQL 14 on Rocky Linux 8, execute:

      curl https://dl.enterprisedb.com/default/release/get/14/rpm | sudo bash

  Verify that the repository is installed with:

      sudo dnf repolist

  The output should contain two entries like this:

      2ndquadrant-dl-default-release-pg14                  2ndQuadrant packages (PG14) for 8 - x86_64
      2ndquadrant-dl-default-release-pg14-debug            2ndQuadrant packages (PG14) for 8 - x86_64 - Debug

- Install the &repmgr; version appropriate for your PostgreSQL version (e.g. `repmgr14`):

      sudo dnf install repmgr14

  To determine the names of available packages, execute:

      dnf search repmgr

  In CentOS 7 and earlier, use `yum` instead of `dnf`.

Compatibility with PGDG Repositories

The EDB &repmgr; yum repository packages use the same definitions and file system layout as the main PGDG repository.

Normally yum will prioritize the repository with the most recent &repmgr; version. Once the PGDG repository has been updated, it doesn't matter which repository the packages are installed from.

To ensure the EDB repository is always prioritised, set the `priority` option in the repository configuration file (e.g. `/etc/yum.repos.d/2ndquadrant-dl-default-release-pg14.repo` accordingly.

With CentOS 7 and earlier, the package `yum-plugin-priorities` must be installed to be able to set the repository priority.

Installing a specific package version

To install a specific package version, execute `dnf --showduplicates list` for the package in question:

    [root@localhost ~]# dnf --showduplicates list repmgr10
    Last metadata expiration check: 0:09:15 ago on Fri 11 Mar 2022 01:09:19 AM UTC.
    Installed Packages
    repmgr10.x86_64                            5.3.1-1.el8                              @2ndquadrant-dl-default-release-pg10
    Available Packages
    repmgr10.x86_64                            5.0.0-1.rhel8                            pgdg10
    repmgr10.x86_64                            5.1.0-1.el8                              2ndquadrant-dl-default-release-pg10
    repmgr10.x86_64                            5.1.0-1.rhel8                            pgdg10
    repmgr10.x86_64                            5.1.0-2.el8                              2ndquadrant-dl-default-release-pg10
    repmgr10.x86_64                            5.2.0-1.el8                              2ndquadrant-dl-default-release-pg10
    repmgr10.x86_64                            5.2.0-1.rhel8                            pgdg10
    repmgr10.x86_64                            5.2.1-1.el8                              2ndquadrant-dl-default-release-pg10
    repmgr10.x86_64                            5.3.0-1.el8                              2ndquadrant-dl-default-release-pg10
    repmgr10.x86_64                            5.3.1-1.el8                              2ndquadrant-dl-default-release-pg10

then append the appropriate version number to the package name with a hyphen, e.g.:

    [root@localhost ~]# dnf install repmgr10-5.3.0-1.el8

Installing old packages

See appendix Installing old package versions for details on how to retrieve older package versions.

## Debian/Ubuntu

.deb packages for &repmgr; are available from the PostgreSQL Community APT repository (https://apt.postgresql.org/). Instructions can be found in the APT section of the PostgreSQL Wiki (https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Apt).

For more information on the package contents, including details of installation paths and relevant service commands, see the appendix section packages-debian-ubuntu.

### EDB public apt repository for Debian/Ubuntu

EDB provides a public apt repository for EDB software, including &repmgr;.

General instructions for using this repository can be found on its homepage. Specific instructions for installing &repmgr; follow below.

Installation

- Install the repository definition for your distribution and PostgreSQL version (this enables the EDB repository as a source of &repmgr; packages) by executing:

                    curl https://dl.enterprisedb.com/default/release/get/deb | sudo bash

  This will automatically install the following additional packages, if not already present:

  - `lsb-release`

  - `apt-transport-https`

- Install the &repmgr; version appropriate for your PostgreSQL version (e.g. `repmgr11`):

                    sudo apt-get install postgresql-11-repmgr

  For packages for PostgreSQL 9.6 and earlier, the package name includes a period between major and minor version numbers, e.g. `postgresql-9.6-repmgr`.

Installing old packages

See appendix Installing old package versions for details on how to retrieve older package versions.