Updating OpenSSL to Install Postgres 9.x on CentOS 6.x

The instructions provided here for installing Postgres on CentOS via yum don’t work for Postgres 9.x (Postgres 9.3 being the latest) if you’re stuck running CentOS 6.4 or lower. CentOS 6.4 and lower do not ship with OpenSSL 1.0.1 which is required by Postgres 9.x — they ship with OpenSSL 1.0.0 or lower.

You will most likely get the following errors:

 Error: Package: postgresql93-Server-9.3.2-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64 (pgdg93) Requires: libssl.so.10 (libssl.so.10) (64bit)</p>
<p>Error: Package: postgresql93 -libs-9.3.2-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64 (pgdg93) Requires: libssl.so.10 (libssl.so.10) (64bit)</p>
<p>Error: Package: postgresql93-9.3.2-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64 (pgdg93) requires: libssl.so.10 (libssl.so.10) (64bit)</p>
<p>Error: Package: postgresql93-libs-9.3.2-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64 (pgdg93) Requires: libcrypto.so.10 (libcrypto.so.10 ) (64bit)</p>
<p>Error: Package: postgresql93-Server-9.3.2-1PGDG.rhel6.x86_64 (pgdg93) Requires: libcrypto.so.10 (libcrypto.so.10) (64bit)

Follow the instructions here to build and install an RPM package for OpenSSL 1.0.1. Once that’s done, follow the instructions for installing Postgres again and it should work.

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An even simpler approach

Install the ius repo:

 rpm -ivh http://dl.iuscommunity.org/pub/ius/stable/Redhat/6/x86_64/ius-release-1.0-11.ius.el6.noarch.rpm

Enable the ius-archive repo:

Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/ius-archive.repo and enable the ius-archive repo by changing enabled=0 to enabled=1.

Install the yum replace plugin:

yum install yum-plugin-replace

Replace the existing openssl package with openssl10:

yum replace openssl --replace-with openssl10

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