Re: apt-get remove --help

["Raymond A. Meijer" <rmeijer@internet.gr>]

On Tue 22 March 2005 16:06, Siju George wrote:

Hi,

> I just copied the files "postmaster" and "psql" to
> "/usr/lib/postgresql/bin" fro a local copy after install and the
> database starts up now!!!!

Strange...why weren't these files installed in the first place?!

> will there be a problem later

It depends...

> the contents of /usr/lib/postgresql/bin are

[snip]

> Mar 22 06:56 postmaster -> postgres -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root    
>   142952 Mar 22 06:52 psql cool:/home/cool#

> Should i do the
>
> 'dpkg --force-all -i
> /var/cache/apt/archives/postgresql_7.4.7-1.backports.org.1_i386.deb'
>
> ??

Before you do that, what do 'dpkg -S /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster' 
and 'dpkg -S /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/psql' say?

And 'dpkg -L postgresql|grep bin'?


Cheers,

Ray