From: | Shaw Terwilliger <sterwill(at)sourcegear(dot)com> |
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To: | Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer(at)pasteur(dot)fr> |
Cc: | planx plnetx <planetx2100(at)hotmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: What distribution? |
Date: | 2000-05-26 12:36:06 |
Message-ID: | 20000526073606.A3656@lister.sourcegear.com |
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Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> > Help me I don't wanna run the debian whith his diabolique
> > dselect & apt-get!!!!
>
> I run PostgreSQL on Debian without problems, it's much simpler than on Tru64, it works fine and I seize the opportunity to congratulate the Debian maintainer of the package, Oliver Elphick, which does a lot of work to hide PostgreSQL's annoyances (such as upgrades from one version to another).
I'm running PostgreSQL 7.0 on a Debian Potato machine--compiling and
installing couldn't have been easier. Debian provides all the required
libraries as packages. It was just "./configure && make && sudo make install"
for me. If you want to follow the Debian unstable distribution, 7.0 is
probably as simple as "apt-get install postgresql".
> PS: I don't use dselect.
Me neither. dselect isn't meant to be used by humans, or at least not by
sane ones. "apt-cache search <regexp>" will let you search for packages
by name and description fields, and "apt-get install <package>" or
"apt-get [-b] source <package>" will install them (from pre-built binary
or source, respectively).
Graphical package browsers exist (gnome-apt, aptitude, maybe console-apt
is still around).
--
Shaw Terwilliger
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