From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 5 07:02:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0348816A41F for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 07:02:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1784343D46 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 07:02:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3377E5641C; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 20:02:03 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 20:02:03 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Mike Jeays Message-ID: <20060105070203.GD10946@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <1136433425.1989.7.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1136433425.1989.7.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing PostgreSQL as a package X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 07:02:06 -0000 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted." -- Thomas B. Reed