On Fri Apr 13 11:20:21 2001 Oliver Elphick wrote...
>
>There are certain inconsistencies here:
>
>You say you installed with dselect, but you are calling a program in
>/usr/local; no official Debian packages will ever touch /usr/local.
>
>So I conclude that you actually have a locally compiled copy of PostgreSQL
>on Debian. That being so, it seems possible that you are running into
>problems in loading the libpq.so library. In recent Debian releases, the
>location of the Unix socket was changed from /tmp to /var/run/postgresql,
>and this could be why you are having problems.
>
>If you are using a locally compiled postgresql, you must make sure that
>there are no parts of the Debian postgresql left around to conflict with it.
>In particular, remove the package libpgsql2 (or libpgsql2.1). If this
>causes dependency problems for other packages, you will have to make your
>own local package to satisfy those dependencies.
>
Ah, we are on the track of something here.
Let me take a moment please to explain the long and twist path that got
me
here, please. The perhaps you cna sugest how I cna dig myself out of
the hole I
seem to be in.
It all started with wanting to use gmmusing, which uses postgresql as a
backend. Now I intend to do a lot more with postgesql, so being aware
that a
new release with many new features (7.1) was in release Canidate stage,
I first
compiled and installed it. This wen fine.
However gmussic wants a number of perl modules, including Pg. As I
tried to get
all of these isntalled, using the cpan module, somewhere along the way
it
sugested installng a bundle. When I did this it installed perl 5.6.1 in
/usr/local.
Now I had a mish mash of Debian, and localy compiled perl and perl
modules. I
was neer able to get gmmusic to happliy relaize that all the
prerequisite
modules were installed. So finally, I removed all traces of the locally
installed perl, and intended to remove all the traces of postgresql,
and just
use the Debina packages. I am runing "stable" so these packages are
quite old,
but I geuss they will do for now.
So, now, sinc eyou pointed out that the debian postgresql package
should not
fereence anything in /usr/local, I have done a rm -rf /usr/local/pgsql.
So when I su - postgress, If if typoe creatuser, it's not found. this
sounds
wrong, where will I find the Debian version?
Also, can you sugest a way to get more current versions of things, and
still
have them fit into the Debian way of doing things?
Thanks for the fast reply!
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