2011/11/4 Hannes Erven <h.e@gmx.at>:
> 2011-11-04 16:24, Martín Marqués:
>>> Have a look at "dpkg --force-architecture" .
>>
>> The thing is that perl needs libdbd-pg-perl to connect, which needs
>> libpq5, all this in amd64, but the i386 of postgresql-9.1 needs an
>> i386 version of libpq5
>
> Oh, I see, that's a mess. Probably there really isn't a way to solve
> this... maybe you could do a parallel install of a complete 32bit Perl?
> Or run your Perl app on a different machine?
>
> In my case, I forced a 32bit libpq5 onto the system, which is required
> for the postgresql-client to work, which in turn is used by the init
> scripts to detect successful starting. But I don't need DBD and thus do
> not have other depencies on libpq...
>
I'd install postgresql in a 32 bit VM then.
