We recommend installing `repmgr` using the available packages for your system. RPM packages for `repmgr` are available via Yum through the PostgreSQL Global Development Group RPM repository ( http://yum.postgresql.org/). Follow the instructions for your distribution (RedHat, CentOS, Fedora, etc.) and architecture as detailed at yum.postgresql.org. 2ndQuadrant also provides its own RPM packages which are made available at the same time as each `repmgr` release, as it can take some days for them to become available via the main PGDG repository. See here for details: http://repmgr.org/yum-repository.html .deb packages for `repmgr` are available from the PostgreSQL Community APT repository (http://apt.postgresql.org/ ). Instructions can be found in the APT section of the PostgreSQL Wiki (https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Apt ).