Oliver Elphick wrote: > Packages of PostgreSQL 7.1 for potato are now available from > http://people.debian.org/~elphick/postgresql/potato.html
i'm betting this was covered on-list somewhere but i've not found it-- i've been using postgresql 7.0.3/potato for several months with no trouble at all for several months with no trouble at all. i munge sources.list to point to the urls mentioned on the page above, and after some dependency errors, i try: # apt-get -fu upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: libpgsql2 The following NEW packages will be installed: libpgsql2.1 The following packages will be upgraded pgaccess 1 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 7 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/354kB of archives. After unpacking 573kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 46246 files and directories currently installed.) Removing libpgsql2 ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/libpgsql2.prerm: /etc/postgresql/postmaster.conf: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing libpgsql2 (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: libpgsql2 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) # apt-get -f remove libpgsql2 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libecpg3: Depends: libpgsql2.1 (>= 7.1) but it is not going to be installed libpgperl: Depends: libpgsql2.1 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libpgsql2.1 (>= 7.1) but it is not going to be installed libpgtcl: Depends: libpgsql2.1 (>= 7.1) but it is not going to be installed postgresql: Depends: libpgsql2.1 (>= 7.1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libpgsql2.1 but it is not going to be installed postgresql-client: Depends: libpgsql2.1 (>= 7.1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libpgsql2.1 (>= 7.1) but it is not going to be installed postgresql-contrib: Depends: libpgsql2.1 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libpgsql2.1 (>= 7.1) but it is not going to be installed postgresql-dev: Depends: libpgsql2.1 but it is not going to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). # apt-get -f install libpgsql2.1 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libpgsql2.1: Conflicts: libpgsql2 E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). # apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libpgsql2.1 The following packages will be REMOVED: libpgsql2 The following NEW packages will be installed: libpgsql2.1 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded. 7 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/180kB of archives. After unpacking 492kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 46246 files and directories currently installed.) Removing libpgsql2 ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/libpgsql2.prerm: /etc/postgresql/postmaster.conf: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing libpgsql2 (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: libpgsql2 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) what's the remedy for this? now, my postgresql seems down for the count... :( -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #12 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Where is the DOCUMENTATION? It's all over the place... and there's lots of it. Much was written for non-debian distributions, and much was written long, long ago. But try these anyhow: on your own system, try "man" and "info" and "apropos", and also look under /usr/share/doc/<package>* ... Online, there's linuxdoc.org, debianhelp.org, and debian.org/doc/ of course. Also try http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/general/index-deb-help-sys.html Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...