Re: Hepl! I messed up! PostgreSQL 7.1 RC1 pacakges
"Stan Brown" wrote:
>I just really messed up!
>
>I have a "stable" machine, and i had installed all the PostgreSQL related pa
>ckages
>from the stable archive, and all was well.
>
>Then I downloaded all the PostgreSQL 7.1 RC1 packages from
>http://people.debian.org/~elphick/postgresql/, put them in a directory all t
>o
>themselves, did a cd to this directory, and di "dpkg -i *".
>
>This did not go well! I got all sorts of errors, and now when I go into dsel
>ct, I
>find I'm in dependency H**L.
>
>First, whay did I do wrong?
You got the packages built for unstable; if you look more closely in that
URL you will also find packages for potato.
>Second, how can I recover from this mess?
Replace those packages with potato ones.
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Oliver Elphick Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
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