I have been unable to install postgresql and I did a search for "postgresql" on Google's Linux search engine and I found a HOWTO which gave a clue about the problem. I thought I should remove the user "postgres" from my /etc/passwd because the HOWTO indicated that the installation should not find a user "postgres" already in the password file.
I removed that user and it seems that did the trick :) The HOWTO is for RPM versions but I thought this would apply to Debian packages also. -- Andrew ----------------------------- GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681 *we all live downstream*