Re: Postgres 8.2 binary for ubuntu 6.10?

On 7/9/07, novnov <novnovice(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> I have postgres 8.1 installed on ubuntu 6.10 via synapic package manager. I
> would like to install 8.2, but it's not offered in the list. I think 8.2 is
> offered on 7.x ubuntu, and I wonder if 8.2 will be offered on 6.10? Probably
> the recommondation will be to compile 8.2 on 6.10, but I've only used binary
> installations on linux and am not eager to open up another can of worms.
>
> In a way I would like to move to the later ubuntu distro. But I'm concerned
> that since my eventual deploy may be on something fairly barebones like
> centos, it might be good to stay with the somewhat less polished version of
> ubuntu...not sure if there is any value in this approach, but it's hard to
> make good choices when one has so little exposure to what the various
> options mean.
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There won't be a release for postgresql 8.2 for ubuntu 6.10
you can :
1 upgrade to ubuntu feisty with sudo "update-manager -c -d"
2 request a backport
3 do the backport yourserf
4 compile from source

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Leonel