Hi Stan, Get the postgresql package that you had installed before, and then...
dpkg --force-downgrade postgresql-<original version> If neccessary.... dpkg --force-downgrade --force-overwrite postgresql-<original version> E-mail back if that doesn't work of course. Hope that helps you, Jimmy Richards On Friday 13 April 2001 20:19, Stan Brown wrote: > I just really messed up! > > I have a "stable" machine, and i had installed all the PostgreSQL related > packages from the stable archive, and all was well. > > Then I downloaded all the PostgreSQL 7.1 RC1 packages from > http://people.debian.org/~elphick/postgresql/, put them in a directory all > to themselves, did a cd to this directory, and di "dpkg -i *". > > This did not go well! I got all sorts of errors, and now when I go into > dselct, I find I'm in dependency H**L. > > First, whay did I do wrong? > > > Second, how can I recover from this mess?
