Re: PostgreSQL 8 debs on Debian 3.1r2

[Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com>]

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
>
> 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

Try running:
$ sudo apt-get -t sarge-backports update
$ sudo apt-get -t sarge-backports -u install postgresql

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