Re: installing

"Dan MacNeil" wrote:
>Please let me know if this is not the right place for this question or
>if there is a more appropriate place....

debian-user(at)lists(dot)debian(dot)org

>I'm looking to install .postgresql as debain packages via apt-get
>
>I'm running debain 2.2 (stable)
>
>The postgresql package for that distribution is 6.5.3-26 This seems
>way out of date...
>
>The Postgresql version in the debian (testing) distribution is 7.1.3
>This seems about right...
>
>However, the postgresql and postgresql-client have the following
>dependences that seem to require upgrade of packages on my system.
>(see below)
>
>Am I going to cause problems / conflicts for myself and my users or
>enter an unending cycle of package upgrades?

The packages in testing are built with the versions of libraries that
you listed. You can't install them on a stable system without either
overriding their dependencies (probably a bad idea!) or doing a more
general upgrade.

You need to install packages built on stable, and you can find some
(rather out of date, I'm afraid) at
http://people.debian.org/~elphick/postgresql

Alternatively, get the source package of 7.1.3-4 and build it yourself.

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