Timothy Burt wrote: I had problems with PostgreSQL 7.1 in Sid at this very point and now it > seems to be working. Sorry I didn't save the transcript, but the problem > for me was where the postinst script was creating /var/lib/postgres/.profile: > this .profile attempts to source /etc/postgresql/postmaster.env -- > but this file didn't exist! However, /etc/postgresql/postgresql.env > *did* exist. So maybe I did something bad... but I symlinked > the missing file to the existing one. It proceeded with the install > and didn't complain! ;-) |------------------------REPLY-------------------------| That is exactly the problem, and your solution did work. I do believe this represents a bug. It did install, however, it complained in the last few lines of installation about 2 missing files /usr/bin/postmaster & /usr/bin/psql I think.... I will be installing the other pg related files in an effort to clear this up. Any help is appreciated.
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