On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 09:37:59PM -0000, Pollywog wrote: > Does anyone know what these errors are all about? > I can't get this installed. > > Now installing the PostgreSQL database files in /var/postgres/data > su - postgres -c > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bi > n:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/bin/X11/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/root/bin:/usr/local/qt/bin:/usr/l > ib/postgresql/bin:/usr/lib/postgresql/bin; initdb -l /usr/lib/postgresql/lib > -r /var/postgres/data -u postgres > dpkg: error processing postgresql (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > postgresql
The lastest potato package should be using /var/lib/postgres/data as it's default database home. The postgresql packages have been updated twice this week for potato. Did you try one of these new versions? Quite a few bugs have been fixed. > > FYI: > > lilypad:/home/pollywog#dpkg -l | grep postgresql > iF postgresql 6.3.2-15 Object-relational SQL database, descended > fr > ii postgresql-dev 6.3.2-15 Header files for libpq (postgresql library) > ii postgresql-doc 6.3.2-15 Documentation for the PostgreSQL database. > > I am using potato but this is a slink version of Postgresql. I had the same > problems installing the potato version. -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+
