Installing PostgreSQL as a package

[Jonathan Chen]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 10:57:05PM -0500, Mike Jeays wrote:
> I am having trouble installing postgresql80-server on a 6.0 machine.  It
> complains that it is incompatible with postgresql-client-7.4.8. This
> can't be deleted because it is a dependency of koffice and kde, so I am
> reluctant to force the deletion.
> 
> I forced the install of postgresql80-server, but it hasn't created
> anything in /usr/local/pgsql, and I haven't yet been able to get it to
> run.
> 
> Should I try compiling it from source, or is there something obvious I
> have missed?  I have created the pgsql account.

If I were you, I'd force the deletion of -client, and then rebuild
koffice so that it uses the -client-8.0. Right now, your client will
be unstable as it's a 7.4.8 client trying to talk to a 8.0 server.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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