On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 04:19:40PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I found out a little more just now. Having failed to find the debian > packager's installation instructions for postgresql I removed the > packages from this system. Later I figured to install everything and > take another look. I used the current sid tasksel and checked data base > and hit ok. The installation went error free until after postgresql-doc > got installed then tasksel failed with an error code of 255. So current > version of tasksel is not the way to get this done. I'll check out > aptitude and see what if any it can clean up and straighten out then do a > command line aptitude command to download and install the rest of what's > needed.
What do you need, exactly? For the server basically install the package postgresql. Then if you need to add users or manage the database in any way, su - postgres -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org