Time to admit the sorry truth ... at the time that I switched from RH to Debian several years ago, my Debian install's version of postgres was older than the version I'd compiled on RH, and consequently I had to install from source to get postgres 7.0 functionality.
I um ... *blush* ... well, I haven't upgraded postgres since. It's still chugging along happily ... it's just very old =P I'm finally attempting to bring myself into the 21st century through apt-get. It runs me through some config options, recognizes that I have an old install and offers to upgrade it, and then says this: home:/var/lib/dpkg/info# apt-get install postgresql Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Suggested packages: libpgperl libpgtcl postgresql-dev python-pygresql python-psycopg python-popy python-pgsql pgdocs ecpg The following NEW packages will be installed: postgresql 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 29 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/3010kB of archives. After unpacking 7512kB of additional disk space will be used. Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 76051 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking postgresql (from .../postgresql_7.3.4-6_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/postgresql_7.3.4-6_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 20 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/postgresql_7.3.4-6_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) So here's my question. How do I figure out what "exit status 20" means? I d/l'd the source and grepped around in preinst.in, but I couldn't figure it out. Secondarily, is there a place that debian stores the currently-used install files so that I don't have to download the whole source package just to find them? It seems like /var/lib/dpkg/info only has this sort of thing for fully-installed packages. -- monique Unless you need to share ultra-sensitive super-spy stuff with me, please don't email me directly. I will most likely see your post before I read your mail, anyway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
