Re: apt-get remove --help
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:45:07 +0200, Raymond A. Meijer
<rmeijer@internet.gr> wrote:
> 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'
> >
> > ??
>
thankyou so much for your support Raymond :))
sorry for the late reply!!
yesterday i had to run so as not to miss the last bus home :((]
> Before you do that, what do 'dpkg -S /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster'
> and 'dpkg -S /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/psql' say?
>
# dpkg -S /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster
postgresql: /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster
# dpkg -S /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/psql
postgresql-client: /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/psql
> And 'dpkg -L postgresql|grep bin'?
>
/# dpkg -L postgresql|grep bin
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgres
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/enable_lang
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initlocation
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/ipcclean
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/pg_ctl
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/pg_id
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/pg_controldata
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/pg_resetxlog
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/pg_encoding
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgresql-startup
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/do.maintenance
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postgresql-dump
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/convert.pg_hba.conf
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster
I think there are other things missing there too :((
I am trying to compare the local installation files to the remote one.
kind Regards
Siju
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