On 23-Oct-99 Eric G . Miller wrote: > 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:/us >> r/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.
Actually, I did, and that is why I went back to the stable packages. I guess I will have to install it from source instead. thanks -- Andrew > >> >> 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 | > +----------------------------------------------------+ > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null ----------------------------- GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681 *we all live downstream*
