Thread: installing

installing

From
"Dan MacNeil"
Date:
Please let me know if this is not the right place for this question or
if there is a more appropriate place....

I'm looking to install .postgresql as debain packages via apt-get

I'm running debain 2.2 (stable)

The postgresql package for that distribution is 6.5.3-26  This seems
way out of date...

The Postgresql version in the debian (testing) distribution is 7.1.3
This seems about right...

However, the  postgresql and postgresql-client have the following
dependences that seem to require upgrade of packages on my system.
(see below)

Am I going to cause problems / conflicts for myself and my users or
enter an unending cycle of package upgrades?

My system:    v2.1.3-19
Required:        libc6 (>= 2.2.3-7) GNU C Library: Shared libraries
and Timezone data

My system:     4.1-1
Required:        libreadline4 (>= 4.2-2) GNU readline and history
libraries, run-time

My system:    1:2.95.2-13
Required:       libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (>= 1:2.95.4-0.010810) The GNU
stdc++ library


Re: installing

From
"Oliver Elphick"
Date:
"Dan MacNeil" wrote:
  >Please let me know if this is not the right place for this question or
  >if there is a more appropriate place....

debian-user@lists.debian.org

  >I'm looking to install .postgresql as debain packages via apt-get
  >
  >I'm running debain 2.2 (stable)
  >
  >The postgresql package for that distribution is 6.5.3-26  This seems
  >way out of date...
  >
  >The Postgresql version in the debian (testing) distribution is 7.1.3
  >This seems about right...
  >
  >However, the  postgresql and postgresql-client have the following
  >dependences that seem to require upgrade of packages on my system.
  >(see below)
  >
  >Am I going to cause problems / conflicts for myself and my users or
  >enter an unending cycle of package upgrades?

The packages in testing are built with the versions of libraries that
you listed.  You can't install them on a stable system without either
overriding their dependencies (probably a bad idea!) or doing a more
general upgrade.

You need to install packages built on stable, and you can find some
(rather out of date, I'm afraid) at
http://people.debian.org/~elphick/postgresql

Alternatively, get the source package of 7.1.3-4 and build it yourself.

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