aaugh!
i'm having my fourth day of troubles trying to upgrade
my 6.3 pgsql (came on the debian cd) to 6.5.3, and i'm hoping
someone might have the insight i need to get over this hurdle...
these are the postgres files i'd love to install:
postgresql-6.5.3-3.i386.rpm
or
postgresql-devel-6.5.3-3.i386.rpm
postgresql-perl-6.5.3-3.i386.rpm
postgresql-server-6.5.3-3.i386.rpm
postgresql-test-6.5.3-3.i386.rpm
onto
Linux 2.0.36 #2 Sun Feb 21 15:55:27 EST 1999 i586 unknown
here's the group of error messages i run into when merely
CONVERTING (via 'alien') the *.rpm's to *.deb's:
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on
`debian/tmp/usr/bin/pg_dump': ` libreadline.so.3 => not found'
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on
`debian/tmp/usr/bin/pg_dump': ` libhistory.so.3 => not found'
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/bin/pg_id':
` libreadline.so.3 => not found'
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/bin/pg_id':
` libhistory.so.3 => not found'
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on
`debian/tmp/usr/bin/psql': `libreadline.so.3 => not found'
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on
`debian/tmp/usr/bin/psql': `libhistory.so.3 => not found'
dpkg: /lib/libtermcap.so.2 not found.
so i hopped on the web and searched for *.rpm's that would take care
of filling in the missing holes:
libtermcap-2.0.8-20.i386.rpm
-- contains
/lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8
(to which i linked the sought-after libtermcap.2.0 via
'ln -s libtermcap.so.2.0.8 libtermcap.so.2.0' thinking that
internal tweaks wouln't break the interface)
readline-2.2.1-6.i386.rpm
-- contains
/usr/lib/libhistory.so.3.0
/usr/lib/libreadline.so.3.0
(which i linked to the sought-after filenames in similar fashion
to the method i used for libtermcap)
but doing so seems to not helped one iota, even after going into
'dselect' and choosing to update package info from the mounted directory
where the *deb packages reside.
nearly giving up, i tried using the RPM installer instead:
# rpm -i libtermcap-2.0.8-20.i386.rpm
failed dependencies:
/etc/termcap is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20
/sbin/ldconfig is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20
/bin/sh is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20
ld-linux.so.2 is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20
libc.so.6 is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20
# rpm -i libtermcap-2.0.8-20.i386.rpm
failed dependencies:
/etc/termcap is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20
/sbin/ldconfig is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20
/bin/sh is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20
ld-linux.so.2 is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20
libc.so.6 is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by libtermcap-2.0.8-20
i'd appreciate any direction... thanks (i've still got some hair
left, and would like to keep it).
[accidentally posted this to debian-devel this morning. whoops.]
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