Brook Milligan wrote: >In light of the recent inquiry about postgresql RPMs, it might make >sense to have on our web
pagesome references to packaged up versions >(or other means of easily installing postgresql) for specific >operating
systems.
PostgreSQL for Debian GNU/Linux:
Web page - http://www.debian.org
FTP - ftp://ftp.debian.org and mirrors worldwide
The PostgreSQL source package (postgresql) produces several binary
packages:
Section Package name [comments] ------- ------------ ---------- misc
postgresql libs libpgsql [libpq.so.1] libs libpgsql2 [libpq.so.2]
libs libpgtcl libs libpgperl libs ecpg libs libpgjava [not
availableyet for 6.4.2] devel postgresql-dev doc postgresql-doc
[the following packages are only in Debian's unstable release] libs postgresql-pl libs
python-postgresql [does not exist yet] misc postgresql-contrib misc postgresql-test
The current Debian stable release (hamm) contains release 6.3.2 of
PostgreSQL, as will the currently frozen next release (slink); the
unstable release (potato) contains 6.4.2.
Releases are found in the dists/ directory in the ftp archive.
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