Hi Arbol

Use this command and it will show all the files installed by the package.

dpkg-query -L postgresql-16


Regards

Kashif Zeeshan

On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 9:50 AM Muhammad Ikram <mmik...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Arbol,
>
> Hope above response from Usman must have resolved your issue. You may also
> try by finding any  binary of PostgreSQL. e.g.
>
>  find /usr -name pg_ctl
> /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl
> /usr/lib/postgresql/16/bin/pg_ctl
>
> Regards,
> Ikram
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 9:33 AM Muhammad Usman Khan <usma...@bitnine.net>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Arbol,
>>
>> You can try from the following commands:
>>
>> dpkg-query -L postgresql-16
>> which psql
>> sudo find / -name "postgres" 2>/dev/null
>>
>> On Fri, 23 Aug 2024 at 05:35, Arbol One <arbol...@hotmail.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> After installing PostgreSQL on my Debian-12 machine, I typed 'postgres
>>> --version' and got this msg:
>>> *bash: postgres: command not found*
>>>
>>> 'psql --version', however, does work and gives me this message :
>>>
>>> *psql (PostgreSQL) 16.3 (Debian 16.3-1.pgdg120+1)*
>>>
>>> Obviously postgres is not in the path, but I don't know where the
>>> 'apt-get' installed it or why it did not add it to the path.
>>>
>>> Is there a way I can locate the installation directory?
>>>
>>> Thank in advance.
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>>
>
> --
> Muhammad Ikram
>
>

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