On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Benjamin Exley wrote: > Has anyone else run into problems with postgresql when using apt- > get to upgrade distibuntions on Debian? My debian box has been > out of service for a while and I'd like to revive it. Since 2.2 is now > out, it did an "apt-get dist-upgrade". It went along just find for a ling > time, but then crapped out on postgresql with the message that the > post-install script was failing. > > I tried to uninstall it by hand, so an then reinstall it, but I couldn't > quite get it to go. I know that when you are installing it tells you to > log on as postgres and run postgresql-dump. I tried to do this, but I > had already deleted the old dat directory, so there was nothing to > dump. > > I don't really plan to use this package, but apt-get seems to really > want to install it. Anyone have any ideas? Then remove the package... if you're not going to use postgresql, why bother having it? -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500