On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 06:02:01PM +0200, Alexander Farber wrote: > > thank you - as a Debian-newbie I wasn't aware of that repository. > Unfortunately the doc there is sparse and I still have problems: > > I've enhanced my /etc/apt/sources.list: > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib > deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main > deb http://www.backports.org/debian sarge-backports main contrib non-free > Don't forget to set the policy level to 200 or so.
> Then I've tried: > $ sudo apt-get -t sarge-backports install postgresql > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > postgresql is already the newest version. > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 57 not upgraded. > > $sudo apt-get -t sarge-backports update postgresql > E: The update command takes no arguments > > So I've tried to remove the old packages first: > $ sudo dpkg --purge postgresql postgresql-client postgresql-contrib > > And then I run > $ sudo apt-get -t sarge-backports install postgresql > > But it installs the old packages again: > The backports packages are called postgresql-8.1 becuase the postgresql packages for Etch and Sid still install version 7.5. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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