Hi Louis, Quoting Louis Gidney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Dear Matthew, > (responses interspersed below) > > You wrote: >> I'm traveling tomorrow however I'll take a look at this when I reach >> my destination if no-one else has leapt in. > > Don't let this spoil your weekend. > I am an "oldie" nowadays, in retirement. > This IS important to me, but not so urgent. It's fine, I've got a few hours to kill over the next few days anyway! >> Hmmm, do you know if you are using Postgresql? > > No. I confess have no idea what it is. > From what appears in Synaptic's window I get the > impression it is some kind of database or record > of downloads and upgrades (?). Spot on, it's a database engine much like MySQL etc. From the output of the netstat command it doesn't appear to be running, so we may be able to remove it. I've noticed that I mistyped a command in my last email and the final command should have been sudo aptitude upgrade can you re-run this command and see if that works? if it doesn't, type the following: sudo aptitude remove postgresql-8.1 and if it says that anything other than postgresql needs to be removed, paste the message into a reply to this one, otherwise, let it remove the software and try the upgrade again. Kind regards, Matt -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/