Re: PostgreSQL 8 debs on Debian 3.1r2
Hello Roberto,
On 8/24/06, Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto@familiasanchez.net> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 05:25:57PM +0200, Alexander Farber wrote:
> $ dpkg -l | grep postgres
> ii postgresql 7.4.7-6sarge2 object-relational SQL database management
> ii postgresql-cli 7.4.7-6sarge2 front-end programs for PostgreSQL
> ii postgresql-con 7.4.7-6sarge2 additional facilities for PostgreSQL
> ii postgresql-dev 7.4.7-6sarge2 development files for libpq (PostgreSQL
> ii postgresql-doc 7.4.7-6sarge2 documentation for the PostgreSQL database
Postgres packages for version 8.1 are available at www.backports.org.
However, they are *not* officially supported, nor do they receive
official support from the security team. Now, the people who produce
those packages are the same as those who maintain the official Debian
thank you - as a Debian-newbie I wasn't aware of that repository.
Unfortunately the doc there is sparse and I still have problems:
I've enhanced my /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
deb http://www.backports.org/debian sarge-backports main contrib non-free
Then I've tried:
$ sudo apt-get -t sarge-backports install postgresql
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
postgresql is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 57 not upgraded.
$sudo apt-get -t sarge-backports update postgresql
E: The update command takes no arguments
So I've tried to remove the old packages first:
$ sudo dpkg --purge postgresql postgresql-client postgresql-contrib
And then I run
$ sudo apt-get -t sarge-backports install postgresql
But it installs the old packages again:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
postgresql-client
Suggested packages:
libpgjava libpgtcl postgresql-doc postgresql-dev postgresql-contrib pidentd
ident-server pgdocs pgaccess
The following NEW packages will be installed:
postgresql postgresql-client
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 57 not upgraded.
Need to get 4339kB of archives.
After unpacking 11.9MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Get:1 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main postgresql-client
7.4.7-6sarge2 [540kB]
Get:2 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main postgresql
7.4.7-6sarge2 [3799kB]
Fetched 4339kB in 12s (347kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package postgresql-client.
(Reading database ... 30254 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking postgresql-client (from
.../postgresql-client_7.4.7-6sarge2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package postgresql.
Unpacking postgresql (from .../postgresql_7.4.7-6sarge2_i386.deb) ...
Setting up postgresql-client (7.4.7-6sarge2) ...
Setting up postgresql (7.4.7-6sarge2) ...
And as result I have the old stuff again:
$ dpkg -l | grep postgres
ii postgresql 7.4.7-6sarge2 object-relational SQL database management
ii postgresql-cli 7.4.7-6sarge2 front-end programs for PostgreSQL
Why doesn't it take the postgresql 8.x packages?
Thank you
Alex
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