After a great deal of searching, both at drupal.org and on the web in general, and a great deal of trial and error, it can be reported that installing Drupal on Fedora need not be the source of frustration. The main reason this is challenging has to do with the different way in which Fedora installs Drupal and Postgresql, so the standard ways that you will find in the generic README files and even on the official websites won't work. Artificially trying to make your installs like you see on the sites is fraught with problems.

At least parts of this can be found elsewhere, but this page represents one single place for all your needs for Fedora 9 and Postgresql.

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