Re: postgresql 6.5.3 vs. debian
Why, pray tell, are you trying to install RedHat postgresql RPMs on a Debian
system? Debian has postgresql 6.5.3 already, in frozen. What you are doing
with RPMs is just asking for trouble.
The easiest thing to do is just upgrade your whole system to frozen. If you
can't, then set up apt (/etc/apt/sources.list) to access your nearest mirror
and run "apt-get install postgresql" ... this should upgrade just postgresql
and the parts of your system it depends on.
Regards,
Jeff
On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 03:10:35PM -0500, w trillich wrote:
> aaugh!
>
> i'm having my fourth day of troubles trying to upgrade
> my 6.3 pgsql (came on the debian cd) to 6.5.3, and i'm hoping
> someone might have the insight i need to get over this hurdle...
>
> these are the postgres files i'd love to install:
> postgresql-6.5.3-3.i386.rpm
> or
> postgresql-devel-6.5.3-3.i386.rpm
> postgresql-perl-6.5.3-3.i386.rpm
> postgresql-server-6.5.3-3.i386.rpm
> postgresql-test-6.5.3-3.i386.rpm
> onto
> Linux 2.0.36 #2 Sun Feb 21 15:55:27 EST 1999 i586 unknown
>
> here's the group of error messages i run into when merely
> CONVERTING (via 'alien') the *.rpm's to *.deb's:
>
> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on
> `debian/tmp/usr/bin/pg_dump': ` libreadline.so.3 => not found'
> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on
> `debian/tmp/usr/bin/pg_dump': ` libhistory.so.3 => not found'
> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/bin/pg_id':
> ` libreadline.so.3 => not found'
> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/bin/pg_id':
> ` libhistory.so.3 => not found'
> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on
> `debian/tmp/usr/bin/psql': `libreadline.so.3 => not found'
> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on
> `debian/tmp/usr/bin/psql': `libhistory.so.3 => not found'
> dpkg: /lib/libtermcap.so.2 not found.
>
> so i hopped on the web and searched for *.rpm's that would take care
> of filling in the missing holes:
>
> libtermcap-2.0.8-20.i386.rpm
> -- contains
> /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8
> (to which i linked the sought-after libtermcap.2.0 via
> 'ln -s libtermcap.so.2.0.8 libtermcap.so.2.0' thinking that
> internal tweaks wouln't break the interface)
> readline-2.2.1-6.i386.rpm
> -- contains
> /usr/lib/libhistory.so.3.0
> /usr/lib/libreadline.so.3.0
> (which i linked to the sought-after filenames in similar fashion
> to the method i used for libtermcap)
>
> but doing so seems to not helped one iota, even after going into
> 'dselect' and choosing to update package info from the mounted directory
> where the *deb packages reside.
>
> nearly giving up, i tried using the RPM installer instead:
>
> # rpm -i libtermcap-2.0.8-20.i386.rpm
> failed dependencies:
> /etc/termcap is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20
> /sbin/ldconfig is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20
> /bin/sh is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20
> ld-linux.so.2 is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20
> libc.so.6 is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20
> # rpm -i libtermcap-2.0.8-20.i386.rpm
> failed dependencies:
> /etc/termcap is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20
> /sbin/ldconfig is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20
> /bin/sh is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20
> ld-linux.so.2 is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20
> libc.so.6 is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20
>
> i'd appreciate any direction... thanks (i've still got some hair
> left, and would like to keep it).
>
> [accidentally posted this to debian-devel this morning. whoops.]
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