On 03/20/2018 10:52 PM, Stuart McGraw wrote:
Looks like these posts are coming through a news group to me.
I am Ccing list to get response back there.
>>>
>>> Is Pgdg 10.3 even available for ubuntu 17.10? How the heck does
>>> one upgrade to it?
>>
>> 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)?:
>>
>> http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/dists/bionic-pgdg/
>
> I tried doing a full reinstall of Ubuntu-17.10 followed by a postgresql
> install from the bionic repo (instead of installing 10.1 per above and
> trying to upgrade)
>
> # apt-get -qy install postgresql postgresql-client postgresql-contrib \
> postgresql-doc pgadmin3 postgresql-server-dev-10 libpq-dev
> Reading package lists...
> Building dependency tree...
> Reading state information...
> 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.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> libpq-dev : Depends: libpq5 (= 10.3-1.pgdg18.04+1) but it is not
> going to be installed
> pgadmin3 : Depends: libgcrypt20 (>= 1.8.0) but 1.7.8-2ubuntu1 is to
> be installed
> Depends: libpq5 (>= 8.4~) but it is not going to be
> installed
> Recommends: pgagent but it is not going to be installed
> postgresql : Depends: postgresql-10 but it is not going to be installed
> postgresql-client : Depends: postgresql-client-10
> postgresql-contrib : Depends: postgresql-contrib-10
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
If it where me I would simplify the above for the moment to :
apt-get install postgresql-10
>
> Is there any reason now not to conclude that the 10.3 bionic version is
> simply incompatible with Ubuntu-17.10 (at least without a lot more package
> wrangling chops than I have)?
>
> One can install postgresql-10.1 but one cannot upgrade it to get security
> fixes or to be able to load data dumped from another 10.3 database.
>
> Given that Ubuntu-18.04 will be out soon I guess this is pretty much moot
> except for a few unfortunates like me who absolutely need 10.3 but have no
> option to upgrade. I guess the lesson is that running the Pgdg versions
> of Postgresql on any but the LTS versions of Ubuntu is pretty risky.
> Live and learn. Maybe this will help someone else.
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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com
