Thanks to thilo@eevolute.com for this README and the RPM


INSTALLING PyGreSQL on Redhat Linux 5.1 or 5.2
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Things are pretty easy on Redhat Linux.  You can either get a precompiled
RPM package from

        ftp://www.eevolute.com/pub/python/

or try in compile and install it yourself:

bash$ make redhat       # this just compiles the module as a shared object
cc -fpic -shared -o _pg.so -I/usr/include/python1.5 pgmodule.c -lpq
bash$ python            # you can test it from your local directory
Python 1.5.1 (#1, May  6 1998, 01:48:27)  [GCC 2.7.2.3] on linux-i386
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
>>> import _pg
>>> db = _pg.connect('thilo', 'localhost')
>>> db.query("INSERT INTO test VALUES ('ping', 'pong')")
18304
>>> db.query("SELECT * FROM test")
eins|zwei
----+----
ping|pong
(1 row)

bash$ su                # Yow! Seems to work - now install it properly
bash# cp _pg.so /usr/lib/python1.5/lib-dynload 

done!