Installing Postgres JDBC Driver

You must install the required Postgres JDBC driver.

Download, extract, and copy the JDBC driver, renamed, to /usr/share/java/. If the target directory does not yet exist, create it.

Installing the Postgres JDBC Driver

Install the PostgreSQL JDBC driver by running the following command:
```
wget https://jdbc.postgresql.org/download/postgresql-42.<version>.jar
```
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Make sure to download the specific JAR file for your current JAVA version based on the chart provided in PostgreSQL JDBC Driver website.
Alternatively, if you would like to use the PostgreSQL JDBC driver version shipped with the OS repositories, run the following commands with a driver version that is compatible with the PostgreSQL Server version:
RHEL
```
sudo yum install postgresql-jdbc<compatible_version>
```
Ubuntu
```
sudo apt-get install libpostgresql-jdbc-java<compatible_version>
```
SLES
```
sudo zypper install postgresql-jdbc<compatible_version>
```
Rename the Postgres JDBC driver .jar file to postgresql-connector-java.jarand copy it to the /usr/share/java directory. The following copy command can be used if the Postgres JDBC driver .jar file is installed from the OS repositories:
```
cp /usr/share/java/postgresql-jdbc.jar /usr/share/java/postgresql-connector-java.jar
```
Confirm that the .jar file is in the Java share directory:
```
ls /usr/share/java/
```

Change the access mode of the .jar file to 644:

chmod 644 /usr/share/java/postgresql-connector-java.jar