Re: how to fix my broken system..

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 02:29:37PM +0530, Jaisen N.D. wrote:
> Hai I have a problem here.
> I use Etch. I have installed a postgresql package from debian backports,
> with the following command.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #apt-get -t etch-backports install postgresql-8.3
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> It installed ythe following dependancies also.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   libpq5 postgresql-client-8.3 postgresql-client-common postgresql-common
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Did these come from backports or did you end up with a mixed-bag?
Without the backports in sources.list, you could have problems.

I don't know how to solve such problems in synaptic since I've never
used it and I wouldn't suggest switching to aptitude right now.


Doug.