[sclug] Postgres Installation problem - Woody

[Lars Haggqvist]

Asked a friend who's more into this than me and he 
suggested....
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Nothing is obvious, but I'm not an expert. I would guess 
it's almost certainly to do with the previous installation. 
I'd recommend checking all the aliases and paths in the 
Postgres user account to see if anything there is messing it 
up.

He should also remove the partially installed package with:

apt-get remove --purge postgresql

I'd then try again with apt, and if not use dpkg to see if a 
more meaningful message occurs.
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HTH

Lars

---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 15:05:33 +0100
>From: Tim Sutton <t.sutton at reading.ac.uk>  
>Subject: [sclug] Postgres Installation problem - Woody  
>To: sclug at sclug.org.uk
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>Hi
>
>I need to upgrade my postgres install on my woody box. My 
previous 
>installation was built from source pg 7.2.x. I did a make 
uninstall in the 
>original build dir and am now trying to install the binary 
deb for 7.3.x. 
>However the installation process fails as shown below:
>
>apt-get install postgresql
>Reading Package Lists... Done
>Building Dependency Tree... Done
>The following NEW packages will be installed:
>  postgresql
>0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 52  
not upgraded.
>Need to get 0B/2977kB of archives. After unpacking 7361kB 
will be used.
>Preconfiguring packages ...
>(Reading database ... 24658 files and directories currently 
installed.)
>Unpacking postgresql (from .../postgresql_7.3.3-
1_i386.deb) ...
>dpkg: error 
processing /var/cache/apt/archives/postgresql_7.3.3-
1_i386.deb 
>(--unpack):
> subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit 
status 128
>Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/postgresql_7.3.3-1_i386.deb
>E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
>
>I went through and did a bit more of a thorough clean up 
from my previous 
>install (getting rid of init scripts / data dirs / etc.). 
Still get the same 
>problem though :-( Has anyone got any ideas how I can get 
around this / find 
>out what is causing the problem? I was looking for an apt 
or dpkg -v or -v -v 
>option ala ssh to give me a bit more info about what is 
causing the install 
>to fail ?
>
>TIA 
>
>Tim
>
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