edit: seems like the alpha release is available on the downloads page now: http://www.postgresql.org/download/
useradd --home-dir /home/postgres \
--create-home --shell /bin/bash \
--user-group postgres
apt-get install -y build-essential libkrb5-dev \
libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev \
libossp-uuid-dev uuid python-dev \
libreadline6 libreadline-dev
./configure --disable-debug --enable-thread-safety \
--with-gssapi --with-openssl \
--with-libxml --with-libxslt \
--with-ossp-uuid --with-python \
--without-bonjour
make world && make install
sudo su - postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /home/postgres/cluster -E UTF8"I realize we're all professionals here and technical know-how is expected, but nothing about this is "simple". Brings me PTSD of working w/ academics' alphabet soup of "open source" simulation code written in C, Perl and Makefiles.
Build tools have come along away, maybe not with vanilla Postgres installs, but I guess that's what DBAs are paid to know these days.
So let's turn this around, how would you like to see builds become easier?
This can slightly more easily done using 'apt-get build-dep postgresql-9.4'. That'll also pull in the tools to build the docs, but I'd consider that a good thing.
> make world && make install
You're building world, but not installing it -> make install-world.
Could be explained a bit better...