On 2004-01-10, Richard Lyons penned: > On Friday 09 January 2004 19:46, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> On 2004-01-09, Richard Lyons penned: >> > On Friday 09 January 2004 16:19, Richard Lyons wrote: >> >> On Friday 09 January 2004 15:02, Nicos Gollan wrote: >> >> > On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 14:24:33 +0000 >> >> > >> >> > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > > Running sid. postgresql is now 7.4, but won't open until I >> >> > > upgrade the database, which I can't without 7.3. What do I >> >> > > do? > [...] >> What about browing to >> http://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian/pool/main/p/postgresql/ >> >> and downloading an appropriate version of postgresql, then forcing >> the install with dpkg? > > Yes, thanks again Monique, I have quite muddled this thread with > adding to my own postings. That was what Nicos Gollan suggested a few > hours earlier, and I reported my failure in a different post. I'll > repeat it for simplicity:
Ah, sorry, of course you posted that earlier. Well, here's a thought. The conflict report is regarding libpgtcl, which according to dpkg -p is a tcl interface to postgres. According to aptitude, postgres suggests libpgtcl but does not require it. pgaccess does require it, but you shouldn't *need* that. Perhaps temporarily remove libpgtcl to make way for postgresi, or downgarde libpgtcl and see if anything else squawks? Another option, if I understand the dpkg man page properly, is to use dpkg -i --force-downgrade I'll be out of town and presumably out of net access for the next few days, but I wish you luck in your search. I suppose that another option would be to somehow acquire the 7.3 source, build it and put the executables in /usr/local/bin. You don't actually need the whole postgres package to dump the db, if I understand correctly -- you just need the dumping executable. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
