Re: postgresql on Sarge

[Daniel Ramaley <daniel.ramaley@DRAKE.EDU>]

On Friday 22 July 2005 03:11 pm, ke6isf wrote:
>'apt-get install postgresql' should work; if it doesn't, respond with
> the error dump.

Here's the dump:

# apt-get install postgresql
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  postgresql: Depends: libperl5.8 (>= 5.8.4) but it is not going to be 
installed
E: Broken packages


I next tried to install libperl5.8, but it looks like it won't install 
because perl is already at too new of a version:


# apt-get install libperl5.8
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libperl5.8: Depends: perl-base (= 5.8.4-8) but 5.8.7-3 is to be 
installed
E: Broken packages


My guess is that libperl5.8 is out of date. Is that correct?

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Dan Ramaley
Digital Media Library Specialist
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Cowles Library 140, Drake University